Author S. Edgar Smoot, executive producer of the critically acclaimed documentary, "Lost Civilizations of North America," shares revealing research into America's ancient civilizations and how history has been handed down to our day. Mr. Smoot pays no homage to political or academic correctness as he challenges and gores many academic sacred cows, by asking the taboo scientific and historical questions with boldness and then without apology follows the evidence to its natural extension.
Smoot exposes how and why so much powerful evidence in support of advanced ancient North American civilizations has effectively been silenced by key figures in early American scientific and historical scene.
His research uncovers how these "men of science" succeeded in replacing the traditional view of man, nature and creation with a sophisticated new dogma characterized by the twin pillars of organic and societal "evolution" (a new term in the 1840's). By viewing society through the godless lens of evolution, these men triggered a major cultural revolution which set out to rewrite the story of man's origin and development according to the dictates of this new paradigm.
Artifacts, oral traditions, writing forms, earthworks or archaeology that failed to conform to this newly pronounced narrative must be buried, bulldozed, dismissed or declared fraudulent.
The first and perhaps most tragic of victim of this nineteenth century charlatanism was the ancient Mound Builder (Hopewell) civilization (100BC-400AD) whose massive earthworks once dotted the American landscape by the tens of thousands. That once-Phoenician and Hebrew-rich culture violated every rule of the new philosophy and therefore must be sacrificed.
Why were entire mound cities and earthwork monuments here in North America whose contribution to history and the development of the ancients which would have been of immeasurable worth (all of it evincing signs of incredibly advanced technology and wisdom of the ancients) allowed (and in some cases) ordered to be bulldozed?
Learn about the devastating results that cover-up has led to and how it impacted and intellectually impoverished nineteenth century American society but whose legacy now continues to affect the lives of millions of people all over the world.
Learn the real story about how and why the sciences were handed to us in the way they were... this is history like you have never read it before.
Chapter 1. Adventure of Discovery
Chapter 2. The Myth of the Flat Earth
Chapter 3. Who Really Discovered America
Chapter 4. Driven by the Winds and Currents—2009 Voyage of the Phoenicia
Chapter 5. Discovering America’s Antiquities and the Mysterious Mounds
Chapter 6. In Pursuit of Answers
Chapter 7. Launching the Smithsonian
Chapter 8. First Publication of the Smithsonian
Chapter 9. Symbols—The Language of the Ancients
Chapter 10. Fortifications, Armor and Bone-heaps
Chapter 11. Mound Builders—More Highly Advanced than Credited
Chapter 12. The American Indian—a People without a History
Chapter 13. Political Realization and Implications
Chapter 14. Origins, Mound Builders and Mormonism
Chapter 15. Men, Monuments, and Motives
Chapter 16. The Power to Persuade
Chapter 17. Science, Ethnology and Social Engineering
Chapter 18. Learning from America’s Antiquities
Chapter 19. Did they come from the East?
Chapter 20. Newark Holy Stones
Chapter 23. The Men of Science-Not All Agreeable
Chapter 24. Manifest Destiny and Rights to the Land
Chapter 25. Making a Case for the Removal of the Indians
Chapter 26. Lewis Henry Morgan, Evolution, Origins & the Indians
Chapter 27. Morgan’s Influence and Comparative Studies
Chapter 28. American Father of Anthropology, Lewis Henry Morgan
Chapter 29. Evolution of Thought and Morgan’s Early Views
Chapter 30. Morgan, Marx and Darwin—Altering the Course of Human History
Chapter 31. A New Social Order—Ancient Society
Chapter 32. Morgan, Marx and Engels—The Origin of Family
Chapter 33. John Wesley Powell—the Man Who Changed America
Chapter 34. Powell Family, Palmyra and the Book of Mormon
Chapter 35. John Wesley Powell—Early Years
Chapter 36. Powell—Informative Years
Chapter 37. Morgan and Powell—A United Social Vision
Chapter 38. A Whole New Way of Thinking
Chapter 39. Nature’s God, Religion and Powell’s Mature Faith
Chapter 40. Book of Mormon and the American Indian
Chapter 41. Powell’s Ethnological Eye
Chapter 42. Ethnology, Anthropology and the Science of Man
Chapter 43. Powell, Clubs, Organizations and Associations
Chapter 46. Natural Law, the Constitution or a New Social Contract
Chapter 47. Two Conflicting Ideologies
Chapter 48. Vexing Questions, Nature by Evolution or Design
Chapter 49. Creation by Chance or Design—Hosting the Foreign Press Corps
Chapter 50. Property Ownership and the Lands of the West
Chapter 51. Government Oversight of Water, Resources and Wetlands
Chapter 52. Population, Sustainability, Morgan, Malthus and the American Indian
Chapter 53. Demographics—The Great Predictor
Chapter 54. History, Liberty and the Provident Hand
Appendix A: Chronology of the life of John Wesley Powell
Appendix B: Chronology of the life of Lewis Henry Morgan