Michael Cooley
michael.cooley@humboldt.edu
707-840-8883
Michael Cooley has presented and
taught seminars on various subjects since 2010. He has a BA in History from
Humboldt State University and an MA in English with an emphasis on
nonfiction creative writing.
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Classes, Lectures, and Presentations
GENETIC GENEALOGY
- Why Every Genealogist Must Understand the Y Chromosome
Genetic Genealogy SIG, Placer County Genealogical Society (5 October 2023)
- The Cooley DNA Project
Cooley Family Association of America (February 2023)
- Genetic Genealogy 101
Sonoma County Genealogical Society
(21 September 2019)
- Genetic Genealogy
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(four times, 2014-2018)
- DNA as a Tool for Genealogy Research
Humboldt County Historical Society
(3 June 2017)
- Excavating the Y Chromosome
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(Spring 2017)
- Genetic Genealogy
Cooley Family Association of America, Washington DC
(July 2012)
- The Present State of the Cooley DNA Project
Family History Library, Salt Lake City
(August 1, 2014)
- Genentic
Genealogy and the Cooleys of Stokes County, North Carolina
Silverton, Oregon
(June 12, 2010)
HISTORY
- A Community
Divided: Beverly, (West) Virginia During the Civil War and the Battle
of Rich Mountain
Humboldt State University
(2013)
- Rashomon in
Context
Humboldt State University
(2014)
- History of the Plantagenet Kings of England
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(July 2, 2014)
- The English Anarchy (1135-1154)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(Dec 3, 2016)
GENEALOGY
- Beginning Genealogy
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(four times)
- An Introduction to the Royal Lineages of Britain
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(April 26, 2014)
- The Honest Genealogist
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(December 12, 2015)
- Genealogy Computer Lab
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(twice)
FILM
- Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(May 6, 2014)
- The Ox-Bow Incident (1943): Truth and Justice in the Old West
Eureka Public Library
(22 July 2014)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(July 15, 2015)
- Frederico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(September 17, 2014)
- Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth (1937)
Eureka Public Library
(Jan 17, 2015)
- John Sayles' Matewan (1987)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(March 2, 2015)
- Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Eureka Public Library
(April 14, 2015)
- Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (1950)
Eureka Public Library
(July 14, 2015)
- Percey Adlon's Bagdad Cafe (1987)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(September 2, 2015)
- I Remember Momma (1944)
Eureka Public Library
(November 10, 2015)
- Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(February 29, 2016)
- A Film Unfinished (2010)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(May 6, 2016)
- Vincente Minnelli's Lust For Life (1956)
Eureka Public Library (October 11, 2016)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
- Zoot Suit (1981)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State
University
- Martin Ritt's Hud (1963)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
- Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931)
Eureka Public Library (January 24, 2017)
- Lina Wertmueller's Swept Away (1974)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State
University (May 28, 2017)
- Born to Kill (1947)
Eureka Public Library
(July 11, 2017)
- Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Eureka Public Library
(October 24, 2017)
- Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(Holloween 2017)
- Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University
(Holloween 2017)
- Stormy Weather (1943)
Eureka Public Library
(January 16, 2018)
- Little Ceasar (1931)
Eureka Public Library
(April 10, 2018)
- Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Eureka Public Library
(October 23, 2018)
REFERENCES
- Michael Logan, Eureka Public Library
- Robert Cliver, Professor, Humboldt State University
- Sheila Rocker Heppe, Director, OLLI-HSU
- David E Cooley, former President, Cooley Family Association of America
- Steven Lovejoy, PhD, Sonoma County Historical Records Commissioner
- Patricia Carhart, Vice President, Sonoma County Genealogical Society
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