Sumner Chilton Powell: Difference between revisions

'''Sumner Chilton Powell''' (October 2, 1924 in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]] – July 8, 1993 in [[Colora, Maryland]])<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=sumner+chilton+powell+born&source=bl&ots=VpnkTYi8M6&sig=5f2QFjp02P2Ci0IhJEt0cHQokSI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gbuRVbCkDsH1-AG5t6uACA&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=sumner%20chilton%20powell%20born&f=false books.google.com]</ref><ref>Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.</ref> 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 receivedfrom 1947 to 1952 was an active US Naval Officer attaining the rank of Lieutenant (jg), but remained a Naval Reserve Officer until 1961<ref>United States Military Registers, 1902–1985. Salem, Oregon: Oregon State Library.</ref>. He earned a doctorate in history from [[Harvard University]] in 1956. In 1957 he published ''From Mythical to Medieval Man''. He won the 1964 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] for ''[[Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town]]'' (1963),<ref>[http://pulitzer.org/bycat/History "History"]. In the mid-1960 he taught at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25.</ref> based on records on [[Sudbury, Massachusetts]] from 1638-1660, tracing every settler back to England.