Donald Kagan (/ˈkeɪɡən/; May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient...
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candidate, Hillary Clinton, for president. Kagan was born in Athens, Greece. His father, historian Donald Kagan, was the Sterling Professor of Classics and...
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history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He and his father, Donald Kagan, who was a professor at Yale and a fellow at the Hudson Institute, co-authored...
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Duckworth, 1987, 81; Donald Kagan, The Fall of the Athenian Empire Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987, 306–307 Donald Kagan, The Fall of the Athenian...
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p. 255. Donald Kagan, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, p. 44. Donald Kagan, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, p. 10. Donald Kagan, The Outbreak...
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British psychologist Daryn Kagan (born 1963), former American newscaster David Kagan (born 1949), American bishop Donald Kagan (1932–2021), Yale historian...
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Kagan met her husband Frederick Kagan, who is an American resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), son of historian Donald Kagan,...
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educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global leadership". The organization...
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Elena Kagan (/ˈkeɪɡən/ KAY-guhn; born April 28, 1960) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States...
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Philocles, sailed out with thirty ships, ordering the rest to follow him. Donald Kagan has argued that the Athenian strategy, if this account is accurate, must...
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While America Sleeps is a book by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan, published September 2000. They argue for a policy of strengthening U.S. defense and...
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citizens available to pay the expenses of the city-state. Historian Donald Kagan calculates from ancient records that the special war taxes, religious...
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Aegina, off the southeast side of Greece. Yale Professor and Historian Donald Kagan sustains that the king of Argos Pheidon was "the first man to strike...
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military intelligence officer Donald Kagan – Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University †. Frederick Kagan – historian, resident scholar...
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city to the Spartans in order to overthrow the democracy. Furthermore, Donald Kagan has suggested that Nicomedes had been in contact with the government...
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maneuver used to vanquish the Spartans. Historians Victor Davis Hanson and Donald Kagan have argued that Epaminondas' oblique formation was not an intentional...
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Himmelfarb Ayaan Hirsi Ali Christopher Hitchens Donald Justice Donald Kagan Frederick Kagan Robert Kagan Robert D. Kaplan Henry Kissinger Julius Krein Hugh...
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ISBN 978-0-521-56627-8. Kagan, Donald (1974). The Archidamian War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-0889-2. Kagan, Donald (1989). The Outbreak...
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Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964) is an American musician. He was the bassist of hard rock band Guns N' Roses for twelve years, with...
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antiquity, known for his work in historiography, and characterised by Donald Kagan as "the world's leading student of the writing of history in the ancient...
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the Athenians, which has come down to us among the works of Xenophon. Donald Kagan suggests that Thucydides' ultimate goal, which he could not state openly...
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for Historic Preservation 2002 Frankie Hewitt Iowa Writers' Workshop Donald Kagan Brian Lamb Art Linkletter Thomas Sowell Patricia MacLachlan The Mount...
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Messenian pinnace, which brought 40 more hoplites to defend the peninsula. (Donald Kagan has asserted that these apparently fortuitous arrivals must have been...
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somewhat fewer men on the Argive coalition's side, about 8,000 according to Donald Kagan. Other scholars, such as Victor Davis Hanson, give slightly bigger numbers...
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Theramenes had been appointed by the oligarchic ‘5,000’ in Athens. Donald Kagan disputes Alcibiades's supreme command stating that Thrasybulus, as commander...
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published in 1979, and has gone through twelve editions. It was written by Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, and Frank M. Turner. It soon became a "standard survey...
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be assassinated in 403 BC, having never returned to his native city. Donald Kagan, meanwhile, has suggested that the most important effect of the battle...
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among modern historians over Thrasybulus' involvement in this plot. Donald Kagan has suggested that Thrasybulus was one of the founding members of the...
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Fynes Clinton, p. 92. For a more detailed account of this conflict, see Donald Kagan (1969), The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, pp. 120–124, based largely...
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wanted the 5,000 to govern instead of the 400, the hoplites set to work. Donald Kagan has suggested that this call was probably instigated by Theramenes' party...
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