History of North Dakota
The author was born October 13, 1905, on a farm near Cleveland, Ohio.  Nine years later the family moved to Chagrin Falls, outside Cleveland, where his father opened a photographic studio. Professor Robinson retained a life-long love of photography, but he majored in English at Oberlin College.After graduation Robinson became English teacher and principal of a small high school in New Lyme, Ohio.  His appreciation for history grew into a decision to return to graduate study in American history at Ohio's Western Reserve University.  He managed to secure a scarce Depression-era university position in 1935, coming to UND to teach American history, and finished his Ph.D. dissertation the next year.Robinson's great work emerged from a series of radio biographies on North Dakota's personalities, begun in 1947.  Robinson retired from UND in 1974 with the university's highest rank, University Professor. He died in 1988.