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Warren H. Carroll : biography

24 March 1932 – 17 July 2011

Dr. Warren H. Carroll (24 March 1932 – 17 July 2011) was a leading conservative Catholic historian and author, and the founder of Christendom College.

Books by Warren H. Carroll

Non-fiction

  • A History of Christendom (Six Volumes when complete)
    • The Founding of Christendom
    • The Building of Christendom
    • The Glory of Christendom
    • The Cleaving of Christendom
    • The Revolution against Christendom (with Anne Carroll)
    • The Crisis of Christendom (with Anne Carroll; expected June 2012)
  • 1917: Red Banner, White Mantle
  • Reasons for Hope (Co-authorship w/ William Marshner, Jeffrey A. Mirus, and Kristin Popik Burns,)
  • Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness
  • The Guillotine & the Cross
  • Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen
  • Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution – Deprecated
  • The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution
  • The Last Crusade: Spain 1936

Fiction

  • The Tarrant Chronicles
    • The Chronicles of Victor Tarrant

Biography

Warren Hasty Carroll was born on March 24, 1932, in Maine. He earned his B.A. in history from Bates College in Maine, and later, his M. A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University.

He served at one time in the CIA’s anti-communism division as a Communist propaganda analyst, a job that would later prove most beneficial when writing his monumental comprehensive study of international Communism, Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution (updated and re-released as The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution). During 1967-1972 he served on the staff of California State Senator, later U.S. Congressman, John G. Schmitz.

After his conversion from Deism to Catholicism in 1968, a year after his marriage to Anne Westhoff, he worked for the Catholic magazine Triumph, and then founded Christendom College in 1977 with the help of other Catholic laymen, in particular, William H. Marshner, Jeffrey A. Mirus, Raymund P. O’Herron, and Kristin M. Burns. He served as the first president of the college (located in Front Royal, Virginia) until 1985, as well as the chairman of the History Department until his retirement in 2002. At the time of his death, Carroll lived in Manassas, Virginia with his wife Anne, the founder of Seton Junior & Senior High School and Seton Home Study School and the author of Christ the King, Lord of History, as well as Christ in the Americas.

Before his death, he returned to Christendom College each month during the school year to deliver public lectures on select historical topics, ranging from the history of the country of Malta, the Mongol leader Genghis Khan, the French Revolution, and topics from the 20th century, with lectures on Emperor Karl of Austria and the Russian Revolution in 1917. These public lectures are available for free download through iTunes. Dr. Carroll remained a member of the Board of Directors and played an active role in helping to guide the college through the years. Dr. Carroll died on July 17, 2011 (at the age of 79), after a number of years of dealing with the effects of numerous strokes, and was buried on July 26, 2011, in a grave overlooking the Shenandoah River, behind the college’s Regina Coeli Hall, where he spent so much of his time while working at Christendom. On September 16, 2012, Dr. Carroll’s Celtic cross headstone (inscribed with “Truth exists. The Incarnation happened.”) was blessed by college chaplain Fr. Donald Planty. .

Awards

He has received numerous awards throughout his academic career. He received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Christendom College in 1999, Christendom College’s "Pro Deo et Patria" award for Distinguished Service to God and Country in 2007, and was the inaugural recipient of Christendom’s “Queen Isabel Catholic Vision of History Award” in 2007. In 1995 he was the inaugural recipient of the "Pius XI Award" in history from The Society of Catholic Social Scientists, an organization of which Carroll was a board member.