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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• Jan 11, 2015
  

  Polio Boulevard: Acclaimed Poet Karen Chase Recalls Her Childhood Illness, Her Complicated Recovery, and Her “Small History”

  by Robin Lindley

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• Jan 6, 2015
  

  The Battle between Journalism and Fiction: Doug Underwood on Genre Bending Journalists and Literary History (Interview)

  by Robin Lindley

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• Nov 9, 2014
  

  This Is How Our Recent Wars Looked to Acclaimed Photojournalist Peter van Agtmael

  by Robin Lindley

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• Oct 30, 2014
  

  MLK's Final Year: An Interview with Tavis Smiley

  by Robin Lindley

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• Oct 3, 2014
  

  Tim Egan on Edward S. Curtis, 'Seattle's Michelangelo'

  by Robin Lindley

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• Sep 5, 2014
  

  Black Women Entertainers in a Revolutionary Time: An Interview with Historian Ruth Feldstein

  by Robin Lindley

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• Aug 18, 2014
  

  The World’s Only Stand-Up Economist Explains Climate Change

  by Robin Lindley

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• Jul 24, 2014
  

  The Longest Battle of the First World War: Historian Paul Jankowski on the Slaughterhouse of Verdun (Interview)

  by Robin Lindley

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• Jul 23, 2014
  

  The Brutal Reality of the Iraq War: An Interview with Award-Winning Photographer Michael Kamber on the Hidden War Seen by Photojournalists

  by Robin Lindley

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• Jul 23, 2014
  

  A Life In Cartoons: An Interview with New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff

  by Robin Lindley

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• Jul 7, 2014
  

  How Brain Wounds and Illnesses Have Advanced Medical Science: An Interview with Acclaimed Science Writer Sam Kean on the History of Neuroscience

  by Robin Lindley

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• Apr 26, 2014
  

  Interview with Victor Navasky about political cartoons

  by Robin Lindley

  Full Article:  http://hnn.us/article/155329
  

• Apr 19, 2014
  

  Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John Handcox

  by Robin Lindley

  Full Article:  http://hnn.us/article/155057
  

• Feb 23, 2014
  

  "There Was No Barrier Between [Seeger] and All of His Friends and Supporters"

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/154637
  
  

• Feb 23, 2014
  

  The Forgotten Healers of World War I [INTERVIEW]

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/154457
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  American Hellfire [INTERVIEW]

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/154230
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  A New Film Life of President John F. Kennedy [INTERVIEW]

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/154009
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  David Dennis on the Nazi Distortion of the Western Tradition [INTERVIEW]

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/153880
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  Peter C. Doherty: Pandemics Have Had "Enormous Influence" on History [INTERVIEW]

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/153771
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  Investigating the Theft of the American Dream with Hedrick Smith (INTERVIEW)

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/153359