Warren Hasty Carroll (March 24, 1932 – July 17, 2011) was the founder and first president of Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. He authored multiple works of Roman Catholic church history.

Early life and education

Carroll was born on March 24, 1932, in Maine, the son of Herbert Allen Carroll and Gladys Hasty Carroll, a writer. He received his B.A. in history from Bates College in 1953. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. His younger sister, Sarah Watson, who died one month after Warren in 2011, and both of their parents were also Bates College graduates.

Awards

Christendom College, the school he founded, awarded Carroll with 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 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. The series presents a narrative account of Western Civilization and Catholic history from antiquity around 2000 BC through 2010.

Books

Non-fiction

  • Reasons for Hope (1978), co-written with William Marshner, 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
  1. The Founding of Christendom [to 324] (1985)
  2. The Building of Christendom [324–1100] (1987)
  3. The Glory of Christendom [1100–1517] (1993)
  4. The Cleaving of Christendom [1517–1661] (2000)
  5. The Revolution against Christendom [1661–1815] (2005), co-written with Anne Carroll
  6. The Crisis of Christendom [1815–2005] (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 (Amazon Kindle 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

  • Warren H. Carroll – Founder of Christendom College (Christendom.edu)