[citation needed] He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois in 1949, and a Master of Arts from the same institution in 1950.

After the war he continued his education on the GI bill, studied Russian, then Chinese on grants in Paris, Taiwan, and Japan.

At Northwestern he was the History Department chair, director of the Program of African Asian Languages, and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

[4][5][6][7] He retired with his wife, the artist and researcher Sonia Landy Sheridan, to the Kendal Community in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he was very active in the cultural life of the center.

[4] As a historian he wrote the history and values of Kendal, A Caring Community and Untie the Elderly.