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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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
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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
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Feb 20, 2017
Beyond Forgetting: An Interview with Steve Sem-Sandberg on His Historical Novel, "The Chosen Ones"
by Robin Lindley
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Jan 22, 2017
War, Memory, and Vietnam: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
by Robin Lindley
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Jan 9, 2017
The Other Slavery: An Interview with Historian Andrés Reséndez
by Robin Lindley
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Dec 13, 2016
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens: The Untold History of this Cataclysmic Event
by Robin Lindley
News
- The Debt Ceiling Law is now a Tool of Partisan Political Power; Abolish It
- Amitai Etzioni, Theorist of Communitarianism, Dies at 94
- Kagan, Sotomayor Join SCOTUS Cons in Sticking it to Unions
- New Evidence: Rehnquist Pretty Much OK with Plessy v. Ferguson
- Ohio Unions Link Academic Freedom and the Freedom to Strike
- First Round of Obama Administration Oral Histories Focus on Political Fault Lines and Policy Tradeoffs
- The Tulsa Race Massacre was an Attack on Black People; Rebuilding Policies were an Attack on Black Wealth
- British Universities are Researching Ties to Slavery. Conservative Alumni Say "Enough"
- Martha Hodes Reconstructs Her Memory of a 1970 Hijacking
- Jeremi Suri: Texas Higher Ed Conflict "Doesn't Have to Be This Way"
Trending Now
- New transcript of Ayn Rand at West Point in 1974 shows she claimed “savage" Indians had no right to live here just because they were born here
- The Mexican War Suggests Ukraine May End Up Conceding Crimea. World War I Suggests the Price May Be Tragic if it Doesn't
- The Vietnam War Crimes You Never Heard Of