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He attended [[The Taft School]] in [[Watertown, Connecticut]], earned a bachelor's degree from [[Amherst College]] in 1946, and from 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 1638-16601638–1660, tracing every settler back to England.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/06/archives/pulitzer-winner-is-seeking-a-job-powell-hopes-history-prize-will.html|title=PULITZER WINNER IS SEEKING A JOB; Powell Hopes History Prize Will Lead to Editor's Post|date=May 6, 1964|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
 
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