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'''Sumner Chilton Powell''' (1924–1993) was an American historian and history teacher at the [[Choate School]], a prestigious college-prep [[boarding school]] in [[Wallingford, Connecticut]]. He attended [[The Taft School]] in [[Watertown, Connecticut]], earned a bachelor's degree from [[Amherst College]] in 1946, and received a doctorate in history from [[Harvard University]] in 1956. He won the annual [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] in 1964 for ''[[Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town]]''.<ref>[http://pulitzer.org/bycat/History "History"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25.</ref>