Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
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| Birth: | 1st May, 1932 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Historian, Professor, Writer |
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Donald Kagan was born in Kuršėnai, Lithuania, USA. He is an American historian at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1954, received an MA from Brown University in 1955 and a PhD from the Ohio State University in 1958. On the eve of the 2000 presidential elections, Kagan and his son, Frederick Kagan, published While America Sleeps, a call to increase defense spending. He was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2002.
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