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Annie Heloise Abel
1873–1947
A pioneering historian of Native American history, she helped open a new path for scholarship at a time when very few women had earned doctorates in history. Her work is especially remembered for its careful study of U.S. and British Indian policy and the Civil War in Indian Territory.
2 Audiobooks
The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy
by Annie Heloise Abel
The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War
by Annie Heloise Abel
About the author
Born in Fernhurst, Sussex, in 1873, she moved to the United States as a child and grew up in Kansas. After studying at the University of Kansas, she earned a PhD in history from Yale in 1905, making her one of the first women in the United States to receive that degree in the field.
She became known as an early professional historian of Native Americans, with particular expertise in British and American Indian policy. Her research was deeply archival and focused on the trans-Mississippi West, and she is often noted as a pioneer in the academic study of Indian-white relations.
She later taught and wrote extensively, and after her marriage she was also known as Annie Heloise Abel-Henderson. Among her best-known works are studies of Indian Territory and Native American participation in the Civil War, which continue to mark her out as an important early voice in American historical scholarship.