The late Earle W. Newton, Ph.D., received an undergraduate degree from Amherst College, a master's degree from Columbia University, and a doctorate from Walden University. During his distinguished career, he founded American Heritage and Vermont Life magazines, and served as director of the Institute on Historical and Archival Management at Radcliffe, Old Sturbridge Village, the Vermont Historical Society and the Pennsylvania Bureau of Museums and Historic Sites and Properties. Newton also served as director of research for Webster Publishing Co., as senior research scholar and Fulbright fellow at the University of London, and as a lecturer at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He is a life member of the International Institute of Arts and Sciences.Newton has written or edited numerous volumes on American history, including The Vermont Story: A History of the People of the Green Mountain State 1749-1949, Before Pearl Harbor, Essays on the Social and Economic History of Vermont, The Upper Connecticut: Narratives of Its Settlement and Its Part in the American Revolution, Spain and Her Rivals on the Gulf Coast, and In Search of Gulf Coast Colonial History .
SCAD mourns passing of art benefactor, author and historian
The Chronicle, June 2, 2006
Newton legacy lives on through collection
The Chronicle, June 16, 2006