Evangeline Atwood

Evangeline Atwood (1906–1987) was an American historian, activist, and philanthropist. She was the co-founder of numerous organizations in Alaska, including the Alaska Statehood Association, the Anchorage League of Voters, the Alaska World Affairs Council, Parent-Teacher Council of Anchorage, and the Cook Inlet Historical Society. She was awarded Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society in 1975. In 2009, she was named to the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Her husband was Robert Atwood and was the co-owner, alongside him, of the Anchorage Times.

She married Robert Atwood on April 2, 1932, whom she met while working in Springfield. They moved to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1935. She became a historian focusing on Alaskan history. She would write six books about the history of Alaska and its culture, including one about James Wickersham.

In the mid-1940s, she founded the Alaska Statehood Association, to support Ernest Gruening to gain statehood for Alaska. She became president of the organization, which had representation in ten cities in the state. The organization funded George Sundborg to produce a research study that would be used to explain to voters why they should make Alaska a state. It was used in the Alaska statehood elections of 1946, and the referendum was approved. The Atwood family papers are held in the collection of the University of Alaska Anchorage. The Alaska Historical Society awards the Evangeline Atwood Award for excellence in Alaska history.