Donald Kagan of Yale is truly an iconic historian of the ancient world.  Paul Kennedy, also of Yale, calls Kagan a combination of Churchill and John Wayne.

Kagan has a great sense of humor and a love for keeping a “core curriculum” to ensure students truly get a good education of Western culture.

The interview is long, but I found it fascinating and you might as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mmB1G3BCrk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa0TUiESDFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATkbnDp52vA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRHs36hLOz0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QslwbOn7Jg