Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. - "Donald Kagan"

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
Donald Kagan

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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.
- Donald Kagan
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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
- Donald Kagan