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.

Aug 5, 2018

Ferdinand Marcos, the FBI, and the Deaths of Two Union Activists in Seattle

by Robin Lindley

Jun 10, 2018

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

by Robin Lindley

Jun 4, 2018

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

by Robin Lindley

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

Mar 2, 2018

Understanding the Persecution of the Rohingya Minority in Myanmar: An interview with international criminal law attorney Regina Paulose

by Robin Lindley

Feb 16, 2018

What You Don't Know About Abolitionism: An Interview with Manisha Sinha on Her Groundbreaking Study

by Robin Lindley

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

Oct 23, 2017

The Creation of the Unprecedented PBS Series "The Vietnam War"

An Interview with Co-Director Lynn Novick

by Robin Lindley

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

Oct 23, 2017

The Origins of American Imperialism: An Interview with Stephen Kinzer

by Robin Lindley

Oct 23, 2017

Broken Brains on Trial: An Interview with Kevin Davis

by Robin Lindley

Oct 23, 2017

Why I Study Comics: An Interview with Hillary Chute

by Robin Lindley

Oct 23, 2017

Dark Days in the City of Light: An Interview with Holly Tucker

by Robin Lindley

May 5, 2017

Bellevue: “America’s Most Storied Hospital” – An Interview with David Oshinsky

by Robin Lindley

Apr 21, 2017

The Art and Life of J.M.W. Turner: An Interview with Biographer Franny Moyle

by Robin Lindley

Apr 3, 2017

Why It's Time to Get to Know the Black Civil Rights Activist James Lawson: An Interview with Michael K. Honey

by Robin Lindley

Feb 20, 2017

Beyond Forgetting: An Interview with Steve Sem-Sandberg on His Historical Novel, "The Chosen Ones"

by Robin Lindley

Jan 22, 2017

War, Memory, and Vietnam: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen

by Robin Lindley

Jan 9, 2017

The Other Slavery: An Interview with Historian Andrés Reséndez

by Robin Lindley

Dec 13, 2016

The Eruption of Mount St. Helens: The Untold History of this Cataclysmic Event

by Robin Lindley