This highly visual brief survey of Western civilization presents a survey of the political, social, and cultural developments in Western history--both strengths and weaknesses, as well as the controversies surrounding it.
Donald Kagan (May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War.