Charles Hapgood papers

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Charles Hapgood papers

1938-1950

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The papers of educator and arts administrator Charles Hapgood measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1938 to 1950. The majority of the collection relates to Hapgood's role as the executive secretary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Crafts Commission working to establish a national crafts plan. The collection includes correspondence, reports, notes on meetings and conferences, and research material in files for William Boogar, John Collier (Commissioner of Indian Affairs), René d'Harnoncourt, R. W. Hudgens (Farm Security Administration), Mary LaFollette, Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Wood, and others.

0.4 Linear feet

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Hapgood, Charles H.

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Charles Hutchins Hapgood (1904-1982) was the son of the journalists and authors Hutchins Hapgood (1869-1944) and Neith Boyce (1872-1951). He earned two degrees at Harvard University: an A.B. (1929) and M.A. (1932) and had a twenty-year teaching career in the humanities through faculty appointments at Keystone College (1945-1947), Springfield College (1947-1952), Keene State College (1956-1966), and New England College (1966-1967), where he lectured in world and American history, anthropology, ec...