Kenneth J. Hagan

Kenneth James Hagan is an American naval historian and retired faculty member of the United States Naval Academy and of the Naval War College's distance education faculty located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.^[1][2]

Early life and education

Born in Oakland, California on February 20, 1936, Hagan graduated with honors in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1958. After serving in the United States Navy from 1958 to 1963, he returned to Berkeley, where he earned his master of arts degree in 20th Century U.S. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1964. He then went on to the Claremont Graduate School, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1970. He married and had three children.^[3]

Naval career

After attending the Naval

Hagan served as President, U.S. Commission on Military History, 1992–1996; Director, Seventh Naval History Symposium, U.S. Naval Academy, 1985; Council Member and Secretary, North American Society for Oceanic History, 1976–1979; Editorial Advisory Board, Military Affairs, 1979–1982, and on the Membership Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1976–1982.

Honors and awards

While on naval service, Hagan received the Meritorious Unit Citation in September, 1986 and the Meritorious Service Medal in September, 1984. As an academic, he received the

By 2015, he had published seven books, nineteen books chapters, eleven articles and twenty-five encyclopedia entries on American naval history.[4]

• American gunboat diplomacy and the old Navy, 1877–1889 (1973).
  OCLC 624657
• American foreign policy: a history, by Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, and Kenneth J. Hagan (1977, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010).
  OCLC 3593763
• In Peace and War: Interpretations of American Naval History, edited by Kenneth J. Hagan. (1978, 1984, 2008).
  OCLC 191732556
• Against all enemies: interpretations of American military history from colonial times to the present, edited by Kenneth J. Hagan and William R. Roberts (1986).
  OCLC 12342367
• This People's Navy: the Making of American Sea Power (1991).
  OCLC 22239857
• Unintended consequences: the United States at war, by Kenneth J. Hagen and Ian J. Bickerton (2007)
  OCLC 74525850
• Strategy in the American War of Independence: a global approach, edited by Donald Stoker, Kenneth J. Hagan and Michael T. McMaster (2010).
  OCLC 373060002