Background
Sandage was born in 1964 in Mason City, Iowa.
Sandage was born in 1964 in Mason City, Iowa.
He graduated from the University of Iowa (Bachelor, 1985) and from Rutgers University (Master of Arts, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy, 1995) in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He was recently named as one of America"s Top Young Historians by the History News Network. He has been a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives, the National Park Service, an off-Broadway play, and film and radio documentaries. He is on the board of directors for the Abraham Lincoln Institute and he"s an expert on the Lincoln Memorial.
His commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Industry Standard, Fast Company magazine, and other periodicals.
He contributed an essay on "loserdom" to the 2004 Whitney Biennial exhibition catalog. In 2010, his work-in-progress book project was entitled Half-Breed Creek: A Tall Tale of Race on the Frontier, 1804–1941 which is a study of mixed race identity in Nebraska.