Women's History Research Sources

Other Sources

This guide provides a brief description of each collection The McCall Library has related to women's history, including dates and sizes. This particular section describes the secondary sources held by us. Please click on one of the highlighted links for the primary sources of organizations; individuals; and business, legal, and governmental entities. This guide was prepared by Delene Case (12/20/2004). Three Azalea Trail Maids stand on the balcony of the Oakleigh Mansion. Photograph courtesy of William Lavendar.

Other Resources

Researchers will find numerous photos of women filed under the following subject categories: Recreation, Mardi Gras, Workers, Identified Adults, Families, and Education.

Teresa Barham Bowers, "From the Pews to the Polls: Protestants and Prohibition in Mobile, Alabama, 1880-1910" (M.A. Thesis, University of South Alabama, 1995).

William J. Breen, "The State and Workplace Reform in the South: War Manpower Commission Initiatives and Employer Resistance on the Gulf Coast in World War II," Gulf South Historical Review 18 (2): 6-37.

Lois Virginia Meacham Gould, "In Full Enjoyment of their Liberty: The Free Women of Color of the Gulf Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola, 1769-1860," (Ph.D. Dissertation, Emory University, 1991).

Floy Ethel Grimmett, "Mary McNeill Fenollosa: A Sketch of Her Life and Work" (M.S. Thesis, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1939).

Patricia G. Harrison, "Riveters, Volunteers and WACS: Women in Mobile During World War II," Gulf Coast Historical Review 1(2): 33-54.

May Jordan, Where the Wild Animals is Plentiful: Diary of an Alabama Fur Trader's Daughter, 1912-1914, ed. Elisa Baldwin (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999).

Rebecca Keeler, "Alva Belmont: Exacting Benefactor for Women's Rights" (M.A. Thesis, University of South Alabama, 1987).

Dorothy M. MacInerny, "Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy: The Life and Works of a Southern Bell" (Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1996).

Martha Jones Mercer, "British Brides, American Wives: The Immigration and Acculturation of War Brides in Mobile, Alabama,1945-1993" (M.A. Thesis, University of South Alabama, 1993).

Laura Elizabeth Smith, "A Woman and Her Idea: Marietta Johnson and the School of Organic Education" (B.A. honors thesis, Harvard University, 1991).

Mary Martha Thomas, Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987).

Mary Martha Thomas, "The Mobile Homefront During the Second World War," Gulf Coast Historical Review 1(2): 55-74.

This guide was prepared by Delene Case, 2005.