Donald Kagan
1932 - 2021
General Information
Bio
(1932-2021) Historian, author. Donald Kagan was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, and died in Washington, District of Columbia.
Full Name
Donald Kagan
Locations
Kings
Author's Timeline
Unknown
OTHER
Mr. Kagan taught in the Department of History at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1932
BIRTH
Donald Kagan was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, on May 1, 1932.
1933
OTHER
Mr. Kagan's father died when Donald was an infant and his mother moved with him and his sister to New York and settled in Brooklyn in the early 1930s.
1954
OTHER
Mr. Kagan attended Thomas Jefferson High School and graduated from Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954.
1969
LITWORK
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
0801405017 / 978-0801405013
History.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
0801405017 / 978-0801405013
History.
1981
LITWORK
The Peace Of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
0801413672 / 978-0801413674
History.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
0801413672 / 978-0801413674
History.
1990
LITWORK
Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy
New York, NY: The Free Press
0029168252 / 978-0029168257
History.
New York, NY: The Free Press
0029168252 / 978-0029168257
History.
1994
LITWORK
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
Doubleday
0385423748 / 978-0385423748
Nonfiction.
Doubleday
0385423748 / 978-0385423748
Nonfiction.
2000
LITWORK
While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today
St. Martin's Press
0312206240 / 978-0312206246
Nonfiction written with Frederick W. Kagan.
St. Martin's Press
0312206240 / 978-0312206246
Nonfiction written with Frederick W. Kagan.
2003
LITWORK
The Peloponnesian War
New York, NY: Viking Press
?0670032115 / 978-0670032112
History.
New York, NY: Viking Press
?0670032115 / 978-0670032112
History.
2009
LITWORK
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
New York, NY: Viking Press
0670021296 / 978-0670021291
History.
New York, NY: Viking Press
0670021296 / 978-0670021291
History.
2013
LITWORK
Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece
Princeton University Press
0691143013 / 978-0691143019
History edited by Donald Kagan and Gregory F. Viggiano.
Princeton University Press
0691143013 / 978-0691143019
History edited by Donald Kagan and Gregory F. Viggiano.
2021
DEATH
Donald Kagan died at a retirement home in Washington, District of Columbia, on August 6, 2021.
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