ARTICLES
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
The Life of Lu Carter in Napa
By Lauren Coodley
Counting Cars
By Lauren Coodley
A Tannery in a Town- Afterthoughts
By Lauren Coodley
The Army of the Immortals: Reclaiming William Jacks
We know so little about Napa in the 19th century. By focusing on one man’s life and the documents saved by his family, we can begin to imagine the town that once was…
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…
Book Review: A Rumbling of Women
The movement for women’s equality in public and private life did not begin in the 1970s. Though, those of us who participated in it might have thought so. History, we had been told, was the story of men…
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…
The Haunting of Soda Springs
I have reached the inner vision
And through thy spirit in me
I have heard thy wondrous secret.
Through thy mystic insight
Thou hast caused a spring of knowledge
To well up within me…
Your World for a Moment: The Recovered History of Carl Franco
(Carolyn Parr Nature Center)
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.