The National Women's History Project was founded in 1980 as a nonprofit educational organization with the overarching goal of promoting gender equity through education about women's diverse lives and accomplishments. This webpage reviews the perspectives of Joan of Arc based on her own testimony, the testimony of those who knew her, and the poets and artists her life inspired. In the spring of 1995, the History Department and Hanover students launched The Hanover Historical Texts Project, with the goal of scanning and making available texts that would be used in history and humanities courses. An index of notable women through history. Distinguished Women of Past and Present offers brief bios of female writers, scientists, politicians, crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others.
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Though dedicated to 16th Century English poet Edmund Spenser, this site contains many links to other contemporaries of his including women writers. This collection of Middle English texts was assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies. The Labyrinth is a global information network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University.