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Articles and reviews by Lauren Coodley.

Napa Valley Marketplace Magazine

Fighting Fires

By Paula Amen Schmitt with Lauren Coodley

Following the Trail

By Lauren Coodley

Counting Cars

By Lauren Coodley

The Mystery of the Asylum

Why are we so intrigued by the mystery of asylums? These institutions were established in the nineteenth century in America to provide housing for those who were so challenged by life that they could not exist outside its walls. The Napa Asylum…

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An Ode to Nelda Nocita

Nelda Nocita, retired professor of economics at Napa Valley College, died recently, and most of those now working there did not know her. It is necessary, as Arthur Miller wrote, that “attention must be paid.” As her friend and office mate George Boyet writes…

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Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing  (1st Edition, Kell)

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.

Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. It also includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.

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.