Robin Lindley

Robin Lindley is a Seattle-based writer and attorney, and the features editor of the History News Network. His articles have appeared in Crosscut, Salon, Real Change, Documentary, Writer’s Chronicle, The Huff Post, AlterNet and others. Follow him on Twitter: @robinlindley2.

ALL POSTS BY Robin Lindley

  • History
    Robin Lindley Talks with Historian Adam Domby about The False Cause
    September 8, 2020
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    Adam Domby, an award-winning historian and specialist on the Civil War and Reconstruction, examines the role of lies and exaggeration in the Lost Cause narratives and their celebration of white supremacy in his timely and groundbreaking new book The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (University of Virginia Press, 2020).  Members of the Minneapolis Police Department killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, on May 25, 2020. The shockingly brutal 8 minute and 46 ...

  • Society
    'I Wanted to Tell the Story of How I Had Become a Racist'
    September 15, 2017
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    In The Making of a Racist, professor Charles B. Dew describes his evolution from a “young Confederate” to an outspoken critic of racism.