Women’s History Resources
The Georgia Historical Society is dedicated to providing standards-based, educational resources that explore Georgia and American History through the experiences of diverse people. In 2017 the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) published a study that “examines the status of women’s history in state-level social studies standards.” The report found that women’s experiences, stories, and histories are often neglected in US history state standards. The Georgia Historical Society has created an online guide that highlights existing GHS resources that help tell the full story of Georgia history through the perspectives of women.
Women’s Suffrage at 100: The 19th Amendment and Georgia History
Educational resources developed for the 2020 Georgia History Festival and in commemoration of 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Women’s History on the Blog
Photo of Juliette Gordon Low portrait. From the Foltz Photography Studio Photographs, MS1360-26-06-02.
Each year, the Georgia Historical Society’s Georgia History Festival explores different topics in Georgia history. Explore the various blog posts from annual series that highlight Georgia women.
From the Collection: Drawing of Nancy Hart
From the Collection: Leah Ward Sears
A Legacy of Leadership: Abigail Minis, Family Leader and Businesswoman
A Legacy of Leadership: Dr. Alice Woodby McKane and Pioneering Healthcare in Georgia
A Legacy of Leadership: Juliette Gordon Low, Persevering Founder of the Girl Scouts
A Legacy of Leadership: Leah Ward Sears and Leading from a Young Age
A History of Urban and Architectural Innovation in Savannah
Through the Collection Highlights, the Georgia Historical Society expands on collection materials housed in its archives. View the Collection Highlights blog posts on women’s history topics below.
Classroom Connections for Georgia Studies: Women’s History in Georgia’s Classrooms
Collection Highlights: 1968 NAACP Newsletter
Historical Markers and Women’s History
#MarkerMonday: Spelman College Women Who Serve
#MarkerMonday: Home of Alice Harrell Strickland – Georgia’s First Woman Mayor
#MarkerMonday: Charity Hospital
#MarkerMonday: The Georgia Civil Rights Trail: The Albany Movement
#MarkerMonday: The Georgia Civil RIghts Trail: The Savannah Protest Movement
Image Credit: David Seibert
#MarkerMonday: Dr. Elizur and Esther Butler: Missionaries to the Cherokees
#MarkerMonday: Jeannette Rankin’s Georgia Home
#MarkerMonday: Mother Mathilda Beasley O.S.F.: Georgia’s First Black Nun
#MarkerMonday: Elizabeth Evelyn Wright
#MarkerMonday: Savannah’s African-American Medical Pioneers
#MarkerMonday: 1996 Summer Olympics: Games of the XXVI Olympiad
#MarkerMonday: Lucy Craft Laney (1864-1933)
#MarkerMonday: First Girl Scout Headquarters in America
#MarkerMonday: Caroline Pafford Miller
#MarkerMonday: Sumter County in the Civil Rights Movement
#MarkerMonday: Wesleyan College, World’s First College Chartered to Grant Degrees to Women
Telfair Nurses 1932. Foltz Photography Studio, MS1360.
Hidden Histories: Beach Institute
Hidden Histories: Birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low
Hidden Histories: Butler Island Plantation
Hidden Histories: Charity Hospital and Training School for Nurses
Hidden Histories: Nina Anderson Pape
Hidden Histories: Telfair Hospital for Females
Hidden Histories: The Georgia Civil Rights Trial, The Savannah Protest Movement
Appling
Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Pafford Miller
Atkinson
Minnie F. Corbitt Memorial Museum
Baldwin
Flannery O’Connor’s Andalusia FarmState College
Bartow
Corra HarrisFelton HomeSite – Cassville Female College
Bibb
Site: Wesleyan College, World’s First College Chartered to Grant Degrees to WomenSt. Peter Claver Catholic Church
Brooks
Catoosa
Confederate Hospitals (Catoosa County)The Napier House
Chatham
Bethesda: Highlights of its HistoryBirthplace of Juliette LowCharity Hospital and Training School for NursesCSS Georgia: The “Ladies’ Gunboat”First Girl Scout Headquarters in AmericaFlannery O’Connor Childhood HomeHaven Home Industrial Training SchoolIndian Trading Post: Home of Mary MusgroveJane CulyerMother Mathilda Beasley, O.S.F.: Georgia’s First Black NunNina Anderson PapeSavannah’s African-American Medical PioneersSt. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church: Mother Church of Black Catholics in GeorgiaSt. Vincent’s AcademyTelfair Academy of Arts & SciencesTelfair Family Mansion: (1818 – William Jay, Architect)Telfair Hospital for FemalesThe Waving GirlThe Sisters of Mercy and St. Mary’s Home
Clarke
America’s First Garden ClubLucy Cobb Institute (1858-1931)
Clay
Historic SitesSite of Fort Gaines Female College
Cobb
Confederate Cemetery (Cobb County)Confederate Cemetery (Cobb County)Residence of Alice McClellan Birney (1872-1884)
Decatur
Dekalb
Alpha Delta Pi: Memorial HeadquartersMary Gay HouseRebecca Latimer Felton
Elbert
Floyd
Dr. Elizur & Esther Butler: Missionaries to the CherokeesMartha Berry’s BirthplaceMedora Field PerkersonOriginal Cabin
Fulton
Atlanta Woman’s ClubBuilding Together for YouthHabersham Memorial HallOur Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church: Atlanta’s First African-American Catholic ChurchSecond Oldest D.A.R. ChapterSpelman College Women Who Serve
Glynn
Gwinnett
Home of Alice Harrell Strickland — Georgia’s First Woman MayorLawrenceville Female Seminary
Hancock
Camilla and Zack Hubert Homesite
Hart
Jones
Lamar
Confederate Cemetery (Lamar County)
Lumpkin
McIntosh
Butler Island PlantationFamous Butler Authors
Monroe
Morgan
Confederate Dead (Morgan County)
Muscogee
Civil War Women’s RiotMildred L. Terry Branch Library
Oconee
Jeannette Rankin’s Georgia Home
Putnam
Rabun
Memorial Lands and Cottages: Georgia Division UDC
Randolph
Andrew Female CollegeConfederate Dead and Hospitals (Randolph County)Mother of Georgia’s Pecan IndustryRandolph County’s First “College for Females” 1852-1907
Richmond
Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman (1794-1885)Lucy Craft Laney (1854-1933)Haines Normal and Industrial InstituteStoney Nurses Home of the Lamar School of NursingThe Sisters of Saint Joseph in Augusta
Sumter
Confederate Cemetery (Sumter County)
Talbot
Taliaferro
Terrell
Chickasawhatchee Primitive Baptist ChurchExile Camp
Troup
Confederate Dead (Troup County)LaGrange College-1831The Nancy Harts
Twiggs
Wilkes
First Methodist ChurchHome of Sarah Hillhouse
