Text Books
The texts for the course can be purchased online, at the University Bookstore, Textbook Corner, and the Town Crier in downtown Emporia.
| Author | Title | Publisher & ISBN |
| Rick Atkinson | Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War | Houghton Miflin, 1993; 0395710839 |
| Tom Ricks | Fiasco | Penguin, 2006 |
| George Packer | The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005; 13-978-0-374-29963-7 |
| Marcy Wheeler | Anatomy of Deceit | Vaster Books, 2007 |
| Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Imperial Life in the Emerald City | Knopf, 2006 |
| Nathaniel Fick | A Bullet Away: | Mariner Books, 2006 |
The books can be purchased online at Abebooks and Amazon as well as E. R. Hamilton Booksellers another online book service.