The Wilson Chronology of Human Rights: A Record of the Human
Striving for Freedom from Ancient Times to the Present. Edited
by David Levinson. Edited by David Levinson. Bronx, NY: H.W.
Wilson, 2003. 581pp. The Wilson Chronology of Human Rights is
one of a series of chronologies including: The Wilson Chronology
of the World's Religions; The Wilson Chronology of Asia and the
Pacific; The Wilson Chronology of Women's Achievements; The
Wilson Chronology of Ideas; The Wilson Chronology of the Arts;
The Wilson Chronology of Science and Technology; and The Wilson
Calendar of World History. As stated in the subtitle, it is an
effort to establish a record of human strivings for freedom from
ancient times to the present. This Chronology is divided into
nine parts, with separate chronologies within specific human
rights issue areas, such as civil rights, religion, women,
indigenous people, children, sexual orientation and gender, the
disabled, and refugees. The idea of doing a chronology is in
some ways ambitious—yet ul