Books for Age of Empire
| Author | Title | Publisher/Date |
| Mason, A.E.W | The Four Feathers | Penguin, 2001 |
| Hochschild, Adam | King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terrorism, and Heroism in Colonial Africa | Houghton Mifflin, 1998 |
| Wilson, A. N. | The Victorians | W. W. Norton, 2003 |
| Farwell, Bryon | Queen Victoria's Little Wars | W. W. Norton, 1988 |
| Woodham-Smith, Cecil |
The Reason Why: The Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade |
Penguin, 1987 |
| Moran, Richard |
Executioner’s Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and the invention of the Electric Chair |
Vintage, 2003: ISBN: 037572446X |
| Rosen, Ruth |
Lost Sisterhood |
Johns Hopkins, 1982. ISBN: 0801826659 |
*These books are not required, but you can substitute one of required texts except for Hobsbawn's Age of Empire.