He taught for a year in Vermont and directed a community center in Provincetown, also serving as the executive secretary of Franklin Roosevelt's Crafts Commission.ĭuring World War II, Hapgood was employed by the Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI, which became the Office of Strategic Services in 1942) and the Red Cross, and also served as a liaison officer between the White House and the Office of the Secretary of the War. work on the French Revolution was interrupted by the Great Depression.

Hapgood received a master's degree from Harvard University in 1929 in medieval and modern History. Hapgood was the son of Hutchins Hapgood and Neith Boyce. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Charles Hutchins Hapgood (– December 21, 1982) was an American college professor and author who became one of the best known advocates of the pseudo-scientific claim of a rapid and recent pole shift with catastrophic results. Hapgood shows that man's evolution from brute to citizen of the world spans a longer time than we have ever supposed. In this book, Hapgood has not merely modified our ideas about ancient history, but his work will necessitate a widespread revolution in our concepts about the whole history of man, the history of his science, and the evolution of human culture. There is evidence that these people must have lived when the ice age had not yet ended in the Northern Hemisphere and when Alaska was still connected with Siberia by the Pleistocene, ice age 'land bridge.' Antarctica was mapped when its coasts were still free of ice. The Americas were mapped thousands of years before Columbus. Not only were these unknown people more advanced in mapmaking than any people prior to the 18th Century, it appears that they mapped all the continents. Working with his students over a period of seven years, Hapgood has discovered evidence that many of these maps must have originated in a civilization in some ways much more advanced scientifically than Europe in the 16th Century, or than the ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Babylonia. He has found the evidence in many beautiful maps long known to scholars, the so-called Portolano charts of the Middle Ages, and in other maps until now thought to have originated around the time of Columbus.

Hapgood has produced the first concrete evidence of the existence of such a civilization. They have even claimed that this lost civilization was almost as advanced as ours today. Some scholars have long claimed that a world civilization existed thousands of years ago - long before Egypt.

Hapgood maps of the ancient sea kings