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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• Sep 18, 2019
  

  Carolyn Forché: Bearing Witness to the Wounds of History

  by Robin Lindley

  A Conversation with Renowned Poet and Human Rights Activist Carolyn Forché on Her New Memoir, Mass Trauma, History, and the Plight of Refugees Today.

  

• Sep 18, 2019
  

  A History of Huntington Disease and Beyond

  by Robin Lindley

  A Conversation with Pioneering Neurogeneticist Dr. Thomas Bird

  

• 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

  A Conversation with historian Nell Painter on her life in history and her “encore career” in art. Click here to read this interview.

  

• 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

  Click here to read this interview with Seattle attorney Michael Withey on the investigation into the assassinations of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, Jr. and the long quest for justice.
  

• Jun 10, 2018
  

  The Horrifying Nazi Roots of the Doctor After Whom Asperger’s Syndrome Is Named

  by Robin Lindley

  Click here for an interview with Edith Sheffer.
  

• Jun 4, 2018
  

  Was a Tulane Psychiatrist Described by Some as a Monster a Victim of Presentism?

  by Robin Lindley

  Click here to read an interview with Lone Frank.
  

• 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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