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Huntsville History: Selected Resources: Women in History

Explore selected reading and archival materials that showcase Huntsville history.

Women in History

Huntsville women have affected local society and politics from the city's foundation. They were and are suffragists, newspaperwomen, movers and shakers, homemakers, educators, and so much more.

Selected Books

Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War
by Mary Martha Thomas
Find it at the library: H 940.5315 THO

The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920
by Mary Martha Thomas
Find it at the library: Z 324.082 THO

Incidents of the War: the Civil War Journal of Mary Jane Chadick
by Nancy Rohr
Find it at the library: H 973.7461 ROH

Selected Archival Collections

The Chapman Digital Collection consists of records from the Chapman sisters: Alberta and Ellelee. Daughters of Governorn Reuben Chapman, Alberta and Ellelee were prominent Huntsville suffragists.
This collection is available for research in the Archives at the Downtown Huntsville Library.

The Alice Boarman Baldridge Digital Collection focuses on Huntsville suffragist Alice Baldridge. Alice was also the first female lawyer in Huntsville.
This collection is available online here.

The Scrapbook Collections record a large amount of volunteerism, philanthropy, social and military history, local artisans, and lineage societies from the perspective of Huntsville and Madison County women.
Scrapbooks are available for research in the Archive at the Downtown Huntsville Library.