Robin Lindley is a Seattle-based writer and attorney, and the features editor of the History News Network (hnn.us). His email is robinlindley@gmail.com.
A Seattle writer-attorney restores the heroic legacy of Nisqually Chief Leschi in an historical novel about the 1850s wars in Puget Sound. The book also conveys a sense of the amazing culture that was in place when the white man blundered in.
Larson discusses his latest nonfiction book, the exhaustively researched story of a novice American ambassador and his family caught up in the mayhem of Berlin during the rise of the Third Reich.
Northwest poet Holly Hughes, whose mother suffered from the disease, put out the call for poems about dealing with "the fracture." A remarkable collection is the result.
UW medical historian Dr. James C. Whorton explains how arsenic poisoned 19th-century Britain, as the government regulators looked the other way. Even Darwin partook.
David Laskin's new book traces the stories of 12 American soldiers who fought for their new country during World War I, including two Congressional Medal of Honor winners. It's a fascinating lens into America's amazing ethnic diversity.
