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Articles and reviews by Lauren Coodley.

RECENT ARTICLES

Soda Canyon School Remembered “The flowers returned every year.”

October 2024 ~ By Lauren Coodley with Lynn Wyckoff

Napa Valley Marketplace Magazine

Almost Lost in the Slipstream: The Life of E. N. Boynton 

December 2023 ~ By Lauren Coodley and Stephanie Grohs

Tom Malloy‘s Napa & Its Movies

July 2014 ~ By Lauren Coodley

Fighting Fires

September 2009 ~ By Paula Amen Schmitt with Lauren Coodley

Counting Cars

December 2007 ~ By Lauren Coodley

The Life of Lu Carter in Napa

October 2016 ~ By Lauren Coodley with Danielle Alexander

Mrs. Brewster’s Double Life

February 2010 ~ By Lauren Coodley

Following the Trail

June 2007 ~ By Lauren Coodley

A Tannery in a Town- Afterthoughts

April 2006 ~ By Lauren Coodley

Napa Valley Marketplace Magazine History Articles

Like A Bottle Cast On The Shore

October 2009 ~ By Lauren Coodley

History Isn’t Always Taught Properly: The Legacy Of Ivy Loeber

February 2009 ~ By Lauren Coodley and Lauren Ellsworth

Seeing History
Through Photographs

February 2006 ~ By Lauren Coodley

Depression Stories

February  2007 ~ 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

June 2005 ~ A letter to the editor of the Napa Valley Register, from Lauren Coodley
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.