Robin Lindley
Robin Lindley is a Seattle-based writer and attorney. He is features editor for the History News Network (hnn.us), and his work also has appeared in Writer’s Chronicle, Crosscut, Documentary, NW Lawyer, Real Change, Huffington Post, Bill Moyers.com, Salon.com, and more. He has a special interest in the history of human rights and medicine. He can be reached by email: robinlindley@gmail.com.
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Apr 15, 2019
Trump’s War on Civil Rights and Beyond: A Conversation with Acclaimed Political Analyst and Civil Rights Historian Juan Williams
by Robin Lindley
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Apr 15, 2019
The Refugee Camps of Twentieth-Century Britain—Historian Jordanna Bailkin Discusses Her Groundbreaking New Book "Unsettled"
by Robin Lindley
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Nov 2, 2018
The Sudden Death of a Democracy: Historian Benjamin Carter Hett on the Fall of the Weimar Republic
by Robin Lindley
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Oct 5, 2018
A Distinguished History Professor Retires—Then Goes to Art School:
by Robin Lindley
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Sep 12, 2018
On War and Remembrance: An Interview with Jay Winter
by Robin Lindley
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Aug 5, 2018
Ferdinand Marcos, the FBI, and the Deaths of Two Union Activists in Seattle
by Robin Lindley
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Jun 10, 2018
The Horrifying Nazi Roots of the Doctor After Whom Asperger’s Syndrome Is Named
by Robin Lindley
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Jun 4, 2018
Was a Tulane Psychiatrist Described by Some as a Monster a Victim of Presentism?
by Robin Lindley
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Jun 4, 2018
Review of Michael K. Honey’s “To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice”
by Robin Lindley
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Mar 2, 2018
Understanding the Persecution of the Rohingya Minority in Myanmar: An interview with international criminal law attorney Regina Paulose
by Robin Lindley
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Feb 16, 2018
What You Don't Know About Abolitionism: An Interview with Manisha Sinha on Her Groundbreaking Study
by Robin Lindley
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Nov 10, 2017
The Troubled Genius of Robert Lowell: An interview with clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison on her groundbreaking study of art and illness.
by Robin Lindley
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Oct 23, 2017
The Creation of the Unprecedented PBS Series "The Vietnam War"
An Interview with Co-Director Lynn Novick
by Robin Lindley
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Oct 23, 2017
“I Wanted to Tell the Story of How I Had Become a Racist”: An Interview with Historian Charles B. Dew
by Robin Lindley
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Oct 23, 2017
The Origins of American Imperialism: An Interview with Stephen Kinzer
by Robin Lindley
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Oct 23, 2017
Broken Brains on Trial: An Interview with Kevin Davis
by Robin Lindley
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Oct 23, 2017
Why I Study Comics: An Interview with Hillary Chute
by Robin Lindley
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Oct 23, 2017
Dark Days in the City of Light: An Interview with Holly Tucker
by Robin Lindley
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May 5, 2017
Bellevue: “America’s Most Storied Hospital” – An Interview with David Oshinsky
by Robin Lindley
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Apr 21, 2017
The Art and Life of J.M.W. Turner: An Interview with Biographer Franny Moyle
by Robin Lindley
News
- Top Ten differences between the Iraq War and Trump’s Proposed Iran War
- Woodrow Wilson Foundation Releases Findings on Why Americans Don't Know History
- How will Obama be remembered? A massive new oral history project will help shape his legacy.
- 30 Years Later, Making Sense Of The MOVE Bombing
- They Resisted Hitler. They Were Executed. At Last, They Lie at Rest.
- Historians Argue That The History Major Won’t Go the Way of the Dodo
- Tenure, Twitter and Taking Her Board to Task
- The new Statue of Liberty Museum is a quiet paean to America’s embrace of immigrants—but what is there to celebrate?
- McCullough’s new book on pioneers’ history draws criticism
- What to Do With Richmond’s Confederate Statues