Warren H. Carroll (March 24, 1932 – July 17, 2011) was the founder and first president of

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in Front Royal, Virginia. He authored multiple works of

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church history.

Biography

The son of Herbert Allen Carroll and regional writer

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, Warren Hasty Carroll was born on March 24, 1932 in

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. He received his B.A. in history from

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in 1953 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from

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. His younger sister Sarah Watson, who died one month after Warren in 2011, and both of their parents were Bates College graduates. He served at one time in the

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division as a

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analyst, a job that would later prove most beneficial when writing his comprehensive study of international

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, ''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,

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. A year after his marriage to Anne Westhoff, Carroll converted from

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to Catholicism in 1968 and began working for the Catholic magazine ''

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''. In 1977 he founded

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

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) 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

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with his wife Anne, the founder of Seton School (Manassas, Virginia) and Seton Home Study School, as well as the author of ''Christ the King, Lord of History'', as well as ''Christ in the Americas''. Before his death, he returned to

each month during the school year to deliver public lectures on select historical topics, ranging from the history of the country of

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, the

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leader

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, the

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, and topics from the 20th century, with lectures on Emperor Karl of Austria and the

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in 1917. These public lectures are available for free

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through

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. Carroll remained a member of the Board of Directors and played an active role in helping to guide the college through the years. Carroll died on July 17, 2011 (at the age of 79), after a number of years of dealing with the effects of numerous

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s, and was buried on July 26, 2011, in a grave overlooking the

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, behind the college's Regina Coeli Hall, where he spent so much of his time while working at Christendom. On September 16, 2012, Carroll's

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headstone (inscribed with "Truth exists. The Incarnation happened.") was blessed by college chaplain Fr. Donald Planty.

Awards

Carroll has received numerous awards throughout his academic career.

, the school he founded, awarded him an honorary doctorate in humane letters in 1999, its Pro Deo et Patria Award for Distinguished Service to God and Country in 2007, and its inaugural Queen Isabel Catholic Vision of History Award in 2007. The Society of Catholic Social Scientists, an organization of which he was a board member, named him its inaugural recipient of the Pius XI Award in history in 1995. He had published articles through the Society's periodical, the ''Catholic Social Science Review''. Carroll is also known for his major work, the multi-volume "History of Christendom". At the time of his death, only five volumes had been published; Anne Carroll helped complete the sixth volume, published in the summer of 2013. Together, the series presents a narrative account of Western Civilization and Catholic history from antiquity (about 2000 BC) through the year 2010.

Books

Non-fiction

*''Reasons for Hope'' (1978), co-written with

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, Jeffrey A. Mirus, and Kristin Popik Burns *''1917: Red Banners, White Mantle'' (1981) *''Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness'' (1983) *''A History of Christendom'' # ''The Founding of Christendom'' o 324(1985) # ''The Building of Christendom'' 24–1100(1987) # ''The Glory of Christendom'' 100–1517(1993) # ''The Cleaving of Christendom'' 517–1661(2000) # ''The Revolution against Christendom'' 661–1815 (2005), co-written with Anne Carroll # ''The Crisis of Christendom'' 815–2005(2013), co-written with Anne Carroll *''The Guillotine and the Cross'' (1986) *''Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution'' (1989) *''Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen'' (1991) *''The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution'' (1995) *''The Last Crusade: Spain 1936'' (1996) *''2000 Years of Christianity'' (2000), co-written with Gloria Thomas

Fiction

*''The Tarrant Chronicles'' **''The Book of Victor Tarrant'' **''The Book of Victor & Valerie Tarrant'' (

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e-book only) **''The Book of Star Tarrant'' (Kindle only) **''The Book of Rex Tarrant'' (Kindle only) **''The Book of Dan Tarrant'' (Kindle only) **''The Book of All The Tarrants'' (Kindle only)

References

External links

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