Scott Powell is the creator of Powell History and A First History for Adults™.
Mr.Powell is a historian residing in Laguna Hills, CA, where he teaches at VanDamme
Academy, a noted private school offering an advanced elementary and junior high
curriculum. Mr. Powell graduated from the University of Alberta in 1995, with a
degree in Civil Engineering, and was a practicing Geographic Information Systems
consultant for over ten years. In 2002 he completed his BA in History at York
University, in Toronto, where he received the History Department's Merit Award
as the highest ranking graduate. While pursing his studies at York, Mr. Powell
also completed the Undergraduate Philosophy of Ayn Rand Seminars of the Ayn
Rand Institute, and attended classes at the Objectivist Graduate Center (now OAC).
Since that time he has been developing the history and geography curriculum
for the elementary grades at VanDamme Academy. He is concurrently working
on the development of an accessible, integrated history program for professional
adults and aspiring intellectuals.