Offers a brief introduction to online catalogs

• library
• research
• TIMEA

Offers a brief introduction to WorldCat, a meta-catalog that searches the holdings of thousands of libraries worldwide.

• WorldCat
• library
• research
• TIMEA

Provides an overview to conducting research using the British Parliamentary Papers.

• Parliament
• historical
• research
• TIMEA

Explains how to identify sometimes obscure images in flags and other visual materials.

• visual
• culture
• TIMEA
• historical
• research

Explains how to identify historical figures in artifacts, using as an example The Souvenir of Egypt.

• visual
• culture
• TIMEA
• historical
• research

Shows how to use the British Parliamentary Papers to conduct historical research.

• historical
• research
• Parliament
• TIMEA

This module is an introduction to using microfilm resources for research.

• microfiche
• microfilm
• microform
• TIMEA
• Travelers
• in
• the
• Middle
• East
• Archive

Explores the careers of British archaeologist T.E. Lawrence and Czech scholar Alois Musil.

• TIMEA
• research
• colonialism

This module introduces the British Parliament and discusses how its papers can be a valuable resource for research projects.

• TIMEA
• research
• Parliament
• Politics

Explains how to borrow library resources through interlibrary loan.

• TIMEA
• research
• library

Explains how to access online resources.

• TIMEA
• historical
• research
• library

Explains how to frame an historical argument using primary source materials.

• Souvenir
• Egypt
• historical
• research
• TIMEA

Describes how to view stereographs and how to use them in a research project. Lists print and online resources about stereographs.

• TIMEA
• stereograph
• stereoscope

Introduction to set of modules providing background information to some significant places in Egypt.

• Egypt
• TIMEA

• historical
• Orientalism
• ornamental
• motifs
• Souvenir
• of
• Egypt
• symbolic
• themes
• TIMEA
• Travelers
• In
• the
• Middle
• East
• Archive
• research

Introduces a course on performing historical research that is built around a case study of Douglas Sladen's "Oriental Cairo."

• Sladen
• historical
• research
• TIMEA
• Cairo

Describes how to identify people depicted in historical artifacts.

• Sudan
• biography
• Charles
• Gordon
• TIMEA
• satire
• visual
• culture

We unravel the story contained in "The Egyptian Red Book," which uses cartoons and quotations from authorities to criticize the British government's handling of General Charles Gordon while under siege in Khartoum in 1884-1885.

• British
• Empire
• cartoons
• Egypt
• Egyptian
• Red
• Book
• General
• Charles
• Gordon
• History
• Politics
• Khartoum
• Sudan
• Mahdi
• Parliamentary
• Papers
• political
• cartoon
• criticism
• satire
• research
• methods
• TIMEA
• Travelers
• in
• the
• Middle
• East
• Archive
• William
• Gladstone

"Compiling Bibliography" explores strategies and resources for compiling a bibliography of an author's works, using as an example the author Douglas Sladen, whose works "Oriental Cairo" and "Queer Things about Egypt" are included in TIMEA.

• bibliography
• biography
• Cairo
• History
• Methodology
• Research
• library
• resources
• Oriental
• People
• Sladen
• Douglas
• Brooke
• Wheelton
• TIMEA,
• Travelers
• in
• the
• Middle
• East
• Archive

A guide to the process of identifying what type of work you are researching and using that information to expand the potential of different research projects. You will be introduced to the process of categorizing the works you find in your research.

• TIMEA
• historical
• research
• Egyptian
• Red
• Book
• satire
• Sudan

Analyzing Symbols in Artifacts," section 5 of the 6-part course on "The Souvenir of Egypt," examines the symbols appearing in the imagery of a decorative silk focused on Egypt. Here, we will discuss how to interpret the meaning of each symbol in the silk

• library
• resources
• online
• research
• orientalism
• ornamental
• motifs
• reference
• section
• Souvenir
• of
• Egypt
• symbolic
• themes
• TIMEA
• Travelers
• in
• the
• Middle
• East
• Archive
• visual
• culture

An introduction and table of contents that describes and provides access to the different learning modules in the Egyptian Red Book course.

• TIMEA
• research

"Researching Biography" explores strategies and resources for studying a person's life history, using as an example the author Douglas Sladen, whose works "Oriental Cairo" and "Queer Things about Egypt" are included in TIMEA.

• TIMEA
• research

Using the TIMEA projectas a case study, this module will explore an increasingly popular trend in historical research: the use of advanced mapping software-- broadly called geographic information systems, or GIS-.

• GIS
• TIMEA

Provides background information to some significant places in Upper Egypt that are represented in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) collection of digital texts, images and maps.

• TIMEA
• Upper
• Egypt

Provides background information to some significant places in Middle East Egypt that are represented in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) collection of digital texts, images and maps.

• TIMEA
• Middle
• Egypt

Provides background information to some significant places in Lower Egypt that are represented in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) collection of digital texts, images and maps.

• TIMEA
• Lower
• Egypt

Provides background information on major US publishers of stereographs, including when they were founded and how many stereographs they produced.

• stereograph
• stereoscope
• stereoscopy
• TIMEA

Examines how to view a work in relation to similar works from other regions or periods, using as an example "Oriental Cairo," which is included in the online Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). This module is designed to guide you through the p

• TIMEA
• research
• bibliography
• Oriental
• Cairo

Examines how stereographs were used as a means of virtual travel. Focuses on James Henry Breasted's "Egypt through the Stereoscope" (1905, 1908).

• stereoscope
• stereograph
• Breasted
• TIMEA

Examines the history of stereoscopes and stereographs, including their cultural impact and changes in technology.

• stereograph
• stereoscope
• stereoscopy
• TIMEA
• Brestead

Overview of how to navigate GIS maps.

• GIS
• TIMEA

• TIMEA
• teaching
• research
• Connexions

Explains the aims and approaches of TIMEA (the Travelers in the Middle East Archive) and Connexions.

• TIMEA
• Connexions

This module explains how to bring example materials from the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) into Connexions. It details adding image files, sections of texts, and links to dynamic GIS maps.

• Connexions
• digital
• archive
• Middle
• East
• research
• teaching
• Travelers
• in
• the
• TIMEA

Explains how to author Connexions modules that are related to the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). It covers adding metadata, making links, and creating exercises

• Connexions
• exercises
• intellectual
• property
• metadata
• Middle
• East
• research
• teaching
• TIMEA

Demonstrates some of the methods used by historians to identify and analyze visual materials and their textual components by focusing on a decorative silk called "Souvenir of Egypt."

• TIMEA
• historical
• scholarship
• visual
• culture
• souvenir
• of
• egypt

Summarizes the publication history of nineteenth-century leading travel guidebooks to Egypt.

• TIMEA
• travel
• guidebooks