Brian Sandberg
@bsandberg.bsky.social
Professor of History, Northern Illinois University
Historian of early modern France, Italy, and the Mediterranean world who focuses on religious violence, civil conflict, and political culture.
Writer, sailor, musician, blues and jazz fan
Historian of early modern France, Italy, and the Mediterranean world who focuses on religious violence, civil conflict, and political culture.
Writer, sailor, musician, blues and jazz fan
Reframing Treaties Now Out in Hardback brian-sandberg.com/2025/12/22/r...
Reframing Treaties Now Out in Hardback
I am happy to report that the hardback edition of Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West is now out and available for library adoptions. I contributed an essay to this collec…
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December 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reframing Treaties Now Out in Hardback brian-sandberg.com/2025/12/22/r...
Trump Blocks International Students Going to Harvard brian-sandberg.com/2025/05/22/t...
Trump Blocks International Students Going to Harvard
The Trump administration is launching a new attack on Harvard University, one of the premier private academic institutions in the United States. The New York Times reports that “The Trump adm…
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May 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Trump Blocks International Students Going to Harvard brian-sandberg.com/2025/05/22/t...
"A Gross Usurpation of Power" by Trump Administration brian-sandberg.com/2025/05/20/a...
“A Gross Usurpation of Power” by Trump Administration
The Trump administration’s recent takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and firing of its leaders and staff members were unlawful acts. In March 2025, members of Elon Musk’s so…
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May 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"A Gross Usurpation of Power" by Trump Administration brian-sandberg.com/2025/05/20/a...
Taxing Endowments Will Shift Tuition Costs to Students brian-sandberg.com/2025/05/20/t...
Taxing Endowments Will Shift Tuition Costs to Students
The Trump administration plans to tax endowments at many private universities. This policy would shift the cost of tuition on students and their families, depriving many students of access to a uni…
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May 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Taxing Endowments Will Shift Tuition Costs to Students brian-sandberg.com/2025/05/20/t...
Mellon Foundation Assists Humanities Councils brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/30/m...
Mellon Foundation Assists Humanities Councils
The Mellon Foundation has thrown a lifeline to state humanities councils, which were stripped of their federal grant funding by the Trump administration recently as part of its dismantling of the N…
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April 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Mellon Foundation Assists Humanities Councils brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/30/m...
Trump Admin Diverts NEH Funds to Sculpture Garden brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/28/t...
Trump Admin Diverts NEH Funds to Sculpture Garden
The Trump administration has gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), laying off staff members and cancelling current grants awards to humanities researchers and institutions across …
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April 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Trump Admin Diverts NEH Funds to Sculpture Garden brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/28/t...
Trump Administration Aims to Manipulate History brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/24/t...
Trump Administration Aims to Manipulate History
President Trump and his administration are attempting to manipulate the historical record of the United States and control historical interpretations of its past. President Trump issued an executiv…
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April 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Trump Administration Aims to Manipulate History brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/24/t...
Coercing Universities and Building a Mafia State brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/21/c...
Coercing Universities and Building a Mafia State
The Trump administration is blatantly coercing universities, especially targeting elite private universities such as Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University, and threatening to…
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April 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Coercing Universities and Building a Mafia State brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/21/c...
Stand with the Fulbright Program brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/21/s...
Stand with the Fulbright Program
The Fulbright Association has issued a statement calling on alumni of the Fulbright Program and concerned citizens to stand with the Fulbright Program, which is currently threatened by the Trump ad…
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April 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Stand with the Fulbright Program brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/21/s...
The American Revolution Began 250 Years Ago brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/20/t...
The American Revolution Began 250 Years Ago
Today is the 250th anniversary of the first shots of the American Revolution at the battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775. The 250th anniversary celebrations of the War of American Inde…
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April 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The American Revolution Began 250 Years Ago brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/20/t...
Research Model of the United States is Threatened brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/16/r...
Research Model of the United States is Threatened
The entire research model of the United States is threatened with destruction. “Around the time of World War II, the U.S. government started funding universities for the purpose of aiding the…
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April 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Research Model of the United States is Threatened brian-sandberg.com/2025/04/16/r...