Annah May Soule (September 5, 1859[1] – March 17, 1905) was a professor of American history and political economy at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.

Harrison Soule was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War when Annah and her sister were small.

[6] Soule taught in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and at the State Normal School at Mankato, Minnesota, as a young woman.

One of her students was Frances Perkins, later U.S. Secretary of Labor, who remembered Soule's economic history course as a significant influence.

[9] "I think she... opened the door to the idea that... the lack of comfort and security in some people was not solely due to the fact that they drank, which had been the prevailing view in my parental society.