By describing Lincoln's rise from obscurity to the presidency, William Harris shows that Lincoln's road to political success was far from easy-and that his reaction to events wasn't always wise or his racial attitudes free of prejudice.

In William C. Harris Jr.'s revolutionary new book, Speak Nothing of the Dead But Good, the State of Georgia turns to a shadowy company called Executive Outcomes to create the first drug colony on U.S. soil.

Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world.

Harris (political science, U. of Otago, New Zealand) outlines the history of the eastern Mediterranean littoral now occupied by Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey.

Emphasizes the conservative bent that guided the young statesman's remarkable political evolution, revealing a Lincoln who was increasingly driven by his antislavery sentiments and fear for the republic in the hands of the Democrats like ...

Although most scholars have labeled Lincoln a moderate, Harris reveals that he was by his own admission a conse.