Sumner Chilton Powell

Sumner Chilton Powell (October 2, 1924 in Northampton, Massachusetts – 1993)^[1] 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. 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),^[2] based on records on Sudbury, Massachusetts from 1638-1660, tracing every settler back to England.

References

↑ books.google.com
↑ "History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25.

External links

Sumner Chilton Powell at Library of Congress Authorities, with 2 catalog records

Pulitzer Prize for History (1951–1975)

R. Carlyle Buley (1951) Oscar Handlin (1952) George Dangerfield (1953) Bruce Catton (1954) Paul Horgan (1955) Richard Hofstadter (1956) George F. Kennan (1957) Bray Hammond (1958) Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider (1959) Margaret Leech (1960) Herbert Feis (1961) Lawrence H. Gipson (1962) Constance McLaughlin Green (1963) Sumner Chilton Powell (1964) Irwin Unger (1965) Perry Miller (1966) William H. Goetzmann (1967) Bernard Bailyn (1968) Leonard Levy (1969) Dean Acheson (1970) James MacGregor Burns (1971) Carl Neumann Degler (1972) Michael Kammen (1973) Daniel J. Boorstin (1974) Dumas Malone (1975)

Complete list (1917–1925) (1926–1950) (1951–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

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