Sumner Chilton Powell

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.^[1]

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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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