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 16, 2016
How Religion Drove George W. Bush's Decisions: An Interview with Biographer Jean Edward Smith
by Robin Lindley
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Aug 12, 2016
The Making of a Politician: Sidney Blumenthal on His New Biography of Abe Lincoln (Interview)
by Robin Lindley
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Aug 5, 2016
Why Adam Hochschild Decided to Write about the Spanish Civil War (Interview)
by Robin Lindley
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Jun 21, 2016
The Cruel History of Eugenics in America: An Interview with Adam Cohen
by Robin Lindley
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Apr 17, 2016
How Our Stone-Age Brain Undermines Smart Politics: An Interview with Rick Shenkman
by Robin Lindley
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Apr 17, 2016
Mercy Street in Context: Historian Pamela Toler on the Real Nurses of the Civil War
by Robin Lindley
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Jan 22, 2016
The New PBS Series on the Civil War: An Interview with the Creator of "Mercy Street"
by Robin Lindley
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Dec 28, 2015
This Is Why Historian Ari Kelman Decided to Write a Graphic History of the Civil War (Interview)
by Robin Lindley
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Dec 28, 2015
The Heroism of Dalton Trumbo: An Interview with Larry Ceplair
by Robin Lindley
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Dec 28, 2015
Christian Appy on the Legacy of the Vietnam War: An Interview
by Robin Lindley
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Dec 28, 2015
The Forgotten Story of Groundbreaking American Surgeon Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter: An interview with Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz.
by Robin Lindley
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Sep 11, 2015
How Bad Was FBI Spying on African American Writers? An Interview with William Maxwell
by Robin Lindley
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Aug 27, 2015
1919, the Year of Racial Violence: An interview with David Krugler
by Robin Lindley
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Aug 7, 2015
Dr. Jonas Salk, the Knight in a White Lab Coat: An Interview with Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
by Robin Lindley
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Apr 12, 2015
Exploring the Words and Wisdom of Charles Johnson with E. Ethelbert Miller (Interview)
by Robin Lindley
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Apr 5, 2015
Lincoln’s Body in American History— Richard Wightman Fox on His New Book (Interview)
by Robin Lindley
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Feb 27, 2015
Do You Remember Dag Hammarskjöld? You Should. An Interview with Biographer Roger Lipsey
by Robin Lindley
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Feb 6, 2015
The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad: An Interview with Eric Foner
by Robin Lindley
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Feb 6, 2015
The Complex History of Pain: An Interview with Joanna Bourke
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"