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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• Dec 17, 2013
  

  On the Trail of the Poet: Seattle Writer Frances McCue on Her Quest for Richard Hugo—and Beyond

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/131904
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  Arsenic, but No Old Lace—Medical Historian James C. Whorton on the Poisoning of Nineteenth-Century Britain

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/131120
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  Textbooks and History Standards: An Historical Overview

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/130766
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  Photographer Peter van Agtmael's Unsparing Images from Iraq and Afghanistan

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/125030
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  Demystifying the Clinton Presidency: An Interview with Historian Taylor Branch

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/121811
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  Pugetopolis -- A Mossback Takes on Growth Addicts, Weather Wimps, and the Myth of Seattle Nice: An interview with Knute Berger

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/80847
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  How a Historian Turned Novelist and Wrote a Book about World War II: An Interview with Ivan Doig

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/59099
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  The Civil War Through Slaves' Eyes: An Interview with Andrew Ward

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/56187
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  The Reflections of JFK’s Closest Advisor, Ted Sorensen (Interview)

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/52263
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  Torture in Democratic Societies: Interview with Darius Rejali

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/51419
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  The Legacy of Pulitzer-Prize Winning Cartoonist Bill Mauldin: An Interview with Biographer Todd DePastino

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/50199
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  Samantha Power Talks About Her New Book (Interview)

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/49504
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  The Return of the Imperial Presidency: An Interview with Charlie Savage

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/44951
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  Why Vincent Bugliosi Is So Sure Oswald Alone Killed JFK (Interview)

  by Robin Lindley

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/41490
  
  

• Dec 17, 2013
  

  American Hellfire: Historian Robert Neer on "Napalm"

  by Robin Lindley

  February 1942. Just two months after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, at a dark time of defeat and anxiety for America, a bright spot for the military: Harvard researchers led by revered chemist Louis Fieser developed an incendiary weapon that would burn longer than traditional weapons, stick to targets, and extinguish only with difficulty. It was cheaper and more stable than existing alternatives, could survive extremes of hot and cold in storage, and could be mixed by soldiers on the battlefield.      
  

• Oct 4, 2013
  

  Cooking at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater [INTERVIEW]

  by Robin Lindley

  
  

  Ellie Henderson. Photo courtesy the author.
  

  Elsie Henderson, who cooked at the famed Frank Lloyd Wright house Fallingwater outside Pittsburgh, turned one hundred on September 7.

  Ms. Henderson worked for Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann, the Pittsburgh department store magnates, and later their son Edgar jr. (he preferred that jr. not be capitalized) for more than 15 years. Asked what contributed to her longevity, she said simply: “Good food.”

  Ms. Henderson’s kitchen was a hub of activity at the unique Fallingwater house, hailed as the most significant private residential structure in the United States

  Author Suzanne Martinson tells the story of Ms. Henderson and shares her recipes in The Fallingwater Cookbook: Elsie Henderson’s Recipes and Memories (with the late Jane Citron and chef Robert Sendall; University of Pittsburgh Press).