About Robin W. Winks Robin W. Winks (1930–2003) was Randolph W. Townsend Professor of History and chair of the Department of History, Yale University. Books by Robin W. Winks Blacks in Canada A History by (author) Robin W. Winks foreword by George Elliott Clarke The Civil War Years Canada and the United States by (author) Robin W. Winks Civil War Years Canada and the United States by (author) Robin W. Winks The Blacks in Canada A History, Second Edition by (author) Robin W. Winks