Offers teachers and students a guide to 14th century England, drawing on historical and archeological sources and from Chaucer's life and work, providing information on religion, poitics, science, medicine, and education.

Chaucer's England

Childress, Diana

Teen & Young Adult

Shoe String Press/Linnet Books

“We want to live, we do not want to face persecution for expressing our political opinion; as women we don’t want to walk on the street with the constant horror that we could be intimidated for showing an inch of hair.” ―Narges Kalhor, a young Iranian filmmaker, October 2009 On June 12, 2005, hundreds of women gathered outside Tehran University in Tehran, Iran. These women were protesting an issue that Iranian women have battled for more than one hundred years: gender inequality. Living in a conservative Muslim culture, Iranian women are subjected to discriminatory laws that serve the male-dominated society. In public, Iranian women must not be seen with men not related to them, and they must wear clothing completing covering their body and their hair. Many laws punish women even more harshly. If a woman is caught committing adultery, she can be sentenced to death by stoning. Yet men are free to have many wives and even enter temporary marriages. In the 1900s, Iranian women began protesting unjust laws and fighting for equality. For a time, under monarchs wishing to modernize, Iran became more lenient. Women began dressing as they wished, mixing socially with men, and working outside their homes. But after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, harsh punishments for moral offenses again became law. Women in professional occupations lost their jobs, and gender separation was enforced in public places. Iranian women continue to struggle against an oppressive regime, but they refuse to stop protesting. In this powerful story, we’ll learn how Iranian women have been punished and discriminated against by their patriarchal government, but yet they maintain their pursuit of equal rights. We’ll also see what their hopes and dreams are for the future.

Equal Rights Is Our Minimum Demand: The Women's Rights Movement in Iran, 2005 (Civil Rights Struggles around the World)

Social Issues

Twenty-First Century Books

Prehistoric People of North America (Junior Library of American Indians)

Describes how archaeologists have used a variety of methods to learn about the past and assemble a picture of prehistoric Native American life

Children's Books

Biographies

Chelsea House Pub

Describes how archaeologists have used a variety of methods to learn about the past and assemble a picture of prehistoric Native American life

Literature & Fiction

The War of 1812 (Chronicle of America's Wars)

History

Military

Lerner Pub Group

Presents the life of the forty-first president of the United States, relating his childhood, career, political background, and reaction to events that occurred during his presidency.

George H. W. Bush (Presidential Leaders)

Introduces the life and accomplishments of Italian explorer Marco Polo, who spent twenty-four years traveling throughout Asia in the 1200s and whose journal of his exploits after his return to Venice made him famous and influential throughout Europe.

Marco Polo's Journey to China (Pivotal Moments in History)

Chronicles Cabeza de Vaca's journey to the New World in 1527, describing the disasters of the expedition and his seven-year stay among the Indians, first as a captive, then as a trader and healer.

Barefoot Conquistador: Cabeza De Vaca and the Struggle for Native American Rights

Describes the life of Johann Gutenberg, his childhood and career, and the invention of the printing press, with a short history of printing and the spread of printing after Gutenberg's invention.

Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press (Pivotal Moments in History)

Discusses the nation of Chile as ruled by Augusto Pinochet, who staged a military coup d'âetat in 1973.

Augusto Pinochet's Chile (Dictatorships)

Education & Reference

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Chaucer's England

Equal Rights Is Our Minimum Demand: The Women's Rights Movement in Iran, 2005 (Civil Rights Struggles around the World)

Prehistoric People of North America (Junior Library of American Indians)

Prehistoric People of North America (Junior Library of American Indians)

The War of 1812 (Chronicle of America's Wars)

George H. W. Bush (Presidential Leaders)

Marco Polo's Journey to China (Pivotal Moments in History)

Barefoot Conquistador: Cabeza De Vaca and the Struggle for Native American Rights

Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press (Pivotal Moments in History)

Augusto Pinochet's Chile (Dictatorships)