http://cnx.org/content http://cnx.org/content/col10290/1.6 col10290 Studying Political Satire: "The Egyptian Red Book" 1.6 2005/06/20 14:44:02.545 GMT-5 2006/09/19 05:18:18.307 GMT-5 Paula Sanders Paula Sanders sanders@rice.edu David Getman David Getman dpgetman@rice.edu Lisa Spiro Lisa Spiro lspiro@sparta.rice.edu dpgetman sanders lspiro dpgetman sanders lspiro dpgetman sanders british empire british parliament cartoons Egypt Egyptian Red Book General Charles Gordon Khartoum (Sudan) Mahdi parliamentary papers political cartoon political criticism political satire british Soudan Sudan TIMEA Travelers in the Middle East Archive William Gladstone Humanities This course demonstrates how to conduct historical research through a case study of a nineteenth-century work of British political satire, "The Egyptian Red Book." It examines how to categorize historical documents, how to identify images of unknown figures, and how to decode satire from a different historical period. It will introduce a variety of research techniques used by historians as well as a number of resources available at research libraries. en http://timea.rice.edu David Getman and Paula Sanders The Research Project Studying Political Satire: Introduction to "The Egyptian Red Book" TIMEA (Travelers in the Middle East Archive) Search TIMEA Egyptian Red Book (XML encoded text) Egyptian Red Book (PDF) Categorizing Historical Documents: What is a Red Book? TIMEA (Travelers in the Middle East Archive) Identifying Historical Figures: Putting Names to the Caricatures in "The Egyptian Red Book" Getting the Whole Story From "The Egyptian Red Book": General Charles Gordon in Khartoum Using Library Resources Accessing Subscription-Based Electronic Resources Searching Online Catalogs: WebCat Locating Research Materials Using Meta-Catalogs: WorldCat Borrowing Resources through Interlibrary Loan: Illiad Conducting Research Using Microfiche, Microfilm and Microcard Introduction to Conducting Research with the British Parliamentary Papers The British Parliament and its Papers Finding What You are Looking For in the British Parliamentary Papers