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.

Dec 20, 2019

Investigating Technology and the Remaking of America

by Robin Lindley

In her lively and extensively researched book The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Penguin Press, 2019), acclaimed History Professor Margaret O’Mara chronicles the story of the Valley from the wartime era of Vannevar Bush to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to more recent innovators, such as Mark Zuckerberg, as she tackles the origins of emerging questions today about dark side of the technology.

Dec 20, 2019

The Overlooked Aftermath of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

by Robin Lindley

A Conversation with Acclaimed History Professor Kate Brown on Her Groundbreaking Book Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

Dec 20, 2019

Historian Ian Reifowitz on How the Race-Baiting Invective of Rush Limbaugh on the Obama Presidency Led to Trump

by Robin Lindley

Reifowitz's latest book traces the election of Donald Trump and the recent rise in white supremacist activity to the incendiary language of racism that the right-wing relies on to win politically.

Sep 18, 2019

Exploring the Curious Sources of Medieval Law: An Interview with Acclaimed Historian Robin Chapman Stacey

by Robin Lindley

An Interview with Acclaimed Historian Robin Chapman Stacey on Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales and More

Sep 18, 2019

Historian Ian Reifowitz on How the Race-Baiting Invective of Rush Limbaugh on the Obama Presidency Led to Trump

by Robin Lindley

Reifowitz's latest book traces the election of Donald Trump and the recent rise in white supremacist activity to the incendiary language of racism that the right-wing relies on to win politically.

Sep 18, 2019

The Overlooked Story of “the Greater United States”: Historian Daniel Immerwahr Shares His Unique Perspective on American Empire

by Robin Lindley

From the Guano Islands to America’s widespread empire now, Professor Immerwahr shares neglected stories from the past showing how inhabitants of America’s possessions have been relegated "to the shadows," and, at various times, have been "shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on."

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.