Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Donald Kagan

Born: May 1, 1932
Died: August 6, 2021 (aged 89)
Bio: Donald Kagan was an American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He taught in the Department of History at Cornell University.
Known for:
- The Western Heritage (1979)
- On the Origins of War (1995)
- The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (1969)
- The Archidamian war (1974)