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Articles and reviews by Lauren Coodley.
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Sam Chapman on the Path
May 2025 ~ Napa Valley Marketplace ~ By Lauren Coodley
The History of Women’s History Classes at Napa Junior College
March 2025 ~ Napa County Historical Society ~ By Lauren Coodley
Local Perspective ~ Eyes on Napa
January 2025 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Soda Canyon School Remembered “The Flowers Returned Every Year.”
October 2024 ~ Napa Valley Marketplace ~ By Lauren Coodley with Lynn Wyckoff
Napa Valley Marketplace Magazine
Neither Rain nor Snow nor Sleet – The Downtown Post Office in Depression Era Napa
April 2024 ~ By Lauren Coodley and Stephanie Grohs
Almost Lost in the Slipstream: The Life of E. N. Boynton
December 2023 ~ By Lauren Coodley and Stephanie Grohs
Giovannoni’s Market, Generosity as Legendary as Their Work Ethic
November 2022 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Book Review: A Rumbling of Women
April 2018 ~ By Lauren Coodley
The Army of the Immortals: Reclaiming William Jacks
June 2017 ~ By Lauren Coodley with Danielle Alexander
For Auld Lang Syne
April 2016 ~ By Lauren Coodley
The Life of Lu Carter in Napa
October 2016 ~ By Lauren Coodley with Danielle Alexander
2016 ~ By Lauren Coodley and Danielle Alexander
Your World for a Moment: The Recovered History of Carl Franco
By Lauren Coodley and Stephanie Grohs (Originally Published by Napa Valley Marketplace ~ September 2015)
The Mystery of the Asylum
2014 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Tom Malloy‘s Napa & Its Movies
July 2014 ~ By Lauren Coodley
The Haunting of Soda Springs
2014 ~ By Lauren Coodley with Cathy Mathews
Rocks Were Broken and Foundations Were Poured
April 2010 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Mrs. Brewster’s Double Life
February 2010 ~ By Lauren Coodley
History Isn’t Always Taught Properly: The Legacy Of Ivy Loeber
February 2009 ~ By Lauren Coodley and Lauren Ellsworth
Fighting Fires
September 2009 ~ By Paula Amen Schmitt with Lauren Coodley
Like A Bottle Cast On The Shore
October 2009 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Retracing Juliana’s Path
June 2008 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Depression Stories
February 2007 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Following the Trail
June 2007 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Counting Cars
December 2007 ~ By Lauren Coodley
January 2006 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Seeing History
Through Photographs
February 2006 ~ By Lauren Coodley
A Tannery in a Town
April 2006 ~ By Lauren Coodley
A Tannery in a Town- Afterthoughts
April 2006 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Fancy Fair & Community Projects-Women’s History in our Town
June 2006 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Gal’s Guide Anthology: Women of History
(March 2022)
Contributor Lauren Coodley
Experience the world through the inspiration of women in this remarkable collection of 14 authors. This anthology is published in partnership with Gal’s Guide Library and Four-Eyed Media.
Encyclopedia of Local History Third Edition (2017)
Contributor Lauren Coodley wrote about Arcadia publishing and agricultural history.
Edited By Amy H. Wilson ~ Available Here
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field. This encyclopedia provides both the casual browser and the dedicated historian with adept commentary by bringing the voices of over one hundred experts together in one place.
Upton Sinclair, the 1923 San Pedro IWW Maritime Strike, and the Battle of Liberty Hill
2015 ~ Essay included in the IWW History Project: Industrial Workers of the World 1905 – 1930 ~ By Lauren Coodley
Mark Ruffalo and Upton Sinclair: Celebrity and Social Justice
August 15, 2014 ~ LA Progressive ~ By Lauren Coodley
The Berkeley Literary Women’s Revolution: Essays from Marsha’s Salon (2004)
Contributor Lauren Coodley ~ Edited By Marsha Hudson.
Sixteen essays were written by members of Marsha’s Salon and its succesors, the Comparative Literature Women’s Caucus, a group of female graduate students at UC-Berkeley, organized in 1969 by Marsha Hudson. The group met for years, and helped lead the charge to bring sexual equality to all facets of education.
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (1st Edition, Kell, 1999)
Contributor Lauren Coodley ~ Profiled Nell Painter and Gerda Lerner.
Edited By Kelly Boyd ~ Available here
The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day.
Violence in America: An Encyclopedia (Ronald Gottesman, Editor in Chief ; Richard Maxwell Brown, Consulting Editor – Hardcover, 1999)
Contributor Lauren Coodley ~ on IWW.
This important 3-volume set unravels societal issues so that readers can examine and study various forms of violence in America from many different perspectives.
Reviews of Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz, and Oil! by Upton Sinclair, originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, can be found in the book House of Four Doors.