Dr. Warren Carroll Lectures

About Dr. Warren H. Carroll

About Dr. Warren H. Carroll

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works, including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

Christopher Columbus

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works, including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal (1390-1460)

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works, including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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The Watchwords of Christendom College: Truth Exists, The Incarnation Happened

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works, including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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Andrew Eiva and the End of the Communist Empire

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works, including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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The Fall of the Soviet Union

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works, including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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“Witness”, by Whittaker Chambers

“Why are Chambers and the man he exposed, Alger Hiss, so important? Because at that moment in American history, in the 1950’s, when we first engaged communism in a shooting war in Korea, he revealed that communism was our supreme enemy and showed us why. He was able to do this because he had been a Communist secret agent himself.”

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The Death of Lenin

“We are the real revolutionaries–yes, we are going to tear the whole thing down! We shall destroy and smash everything, with the result that everything will be smashed to smithereens and fly off in all directions, and nothing will remain standing!

“Yes, we are going to destroy everything, and on the ruins we will build our temple! It will be a temple for the happiness of all! But we shall destroy the entire bourgeoisie, and grind them to powder! Remember that!”

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The Arctic Eagle: Carl Gustaf Mannheim

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works, including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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The Russian Civil War: 1918-1926

“In Russia the end of the First World War in 1918 had created an opportunity for intervention by the Western powers against the Communists and in favor of the Whites. Winston Churchill, the history-maker, then holding office in Lloyd George’s government of Great Britain, could see that opportunity clearly, along with all the terrible consequences of not taking it.

“He told Lloyd George that ‘the Bolsheviks are the enemy of the human race and must be put down at any cost . . . we might as well legalize sodomy as recognize the Bolsheviks.’ But in both Britain and France, the people and especially the war veterans were unutterably weary of war and saw no reason to get involved in Russia’s troubles. It soon became obvious that, except for a few hard-bitten professionals, no British or French troops could be used effectively in Russia.”

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The Russian Revolution: Part Two

“Today we will describe the ultimate revolution in Russia, personally directed by Lenin the revolution-maker. By the Russian calendar, this one happened in October, or in November by our Gregorian calendar.

“Lenin’s revolution transformed the history of the twentieth century. After a farewell lunch in Zurich, Lenin set out with his party on the most important train trip in the history of the world. Lenin was never to see Switzerland again. Russia and the world were now his stage.”

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The Russian Revolution: Part One

Dr. Carroll speaks on communism and its devastating effects. His knowledge of Vladimir, Lenin, Bolshevism, Rasputin, and Stalin becomes clear as he expounds upon their influence as the instigators and supporters of the “most evil rule in history.”  Dr. Carroll explains the first part of the Russian Revolution through major characters, events, and the mindsets of the Russian people.

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The Shadow of Genghis Khan

“For more than eight hundred years a shadow has lain across Russia and China – the shadow of Genghis Khan the Mongol conquer, who rode out of the steppes of central Asia with his ‘devil’s horsemen’ to fasten a yoke of tyranny on the neck of the of the Russian and Chinese people. Russia remained under that yoke for more than two centuries, and China suffers under it today. When Russia became the victim of Communist tyranny and threatened for most of the twentieth century to conquer the whole world, the heritage of Genghis Khan was realized in it.

“Genghis Khan was one of the most evil men who ever lived, a fit forerunner to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. He said that the greatest pleasure in life was to see one’s enemies humbled in the dust.”

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Lord Horatio Nelson

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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Alexander the Great

“Alexander was the son of King Philip of Macedon, a great warrior and conqueror, and Philip’s proud, mystical and passionate Queen Olympias, whom Alexander deeply loved. As a young man Alexander patterned himself after the heroes of Homer and swore to conquer Persia, the ancient enemy of the Greeks and the greatest empire of the ancient world before Rome . . . . Alexander’s conquest united the world of the Middle East with the classical world of Greece and Rome, for the only time in history.”

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Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen

“Her contemporaries uniformly and repeatedly testified to her extraordinary virtues, as have most historians since, Catholic or secular. Even those who vehemently disagree with some of her policies (such as her establishment of the Spanish Inquisition) cannot deny her spotless moral integrity, the harmony of her life with her faith, and the justice and benevolence of most of her rule.”

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McCarthy: The Myth and The Truth

“So pervasive has the myth about Senator McCarthy become that I have had students from my alma mater college in Maine telephone me to interview me, as a man old enough to remember McCarthy’s day, to ask what it was like and to say how terrible it must have been to have lived in his time. They were astonished when I told them that everything was perfectly normal then and just like today.”

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Danton’s Conversion in the French Revolution

“It was three-quarters of an hour past midnight, August 10, 1792, when the bells of Paris began to ring. They were church bells, whose primary purpose was to call the faithful to worship, but now the churches were empty and dark, and only the bells sounded. At first some of them tolled slowly, but others quickened the pace – ringing and rising, ringing and rising, until it was an almost continuous ear-splitting ding-ding ding-ding, and this was the tocsin, the city alarm, the call to arms, which it was a capital offense to sound without orders from the government.”

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Bonnie Prince Charlie

“The story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his attempt to regain the British throne of his fathers is one of the great romances of history – and it all actually happened. The Stuart kings were the rightful rulers of England. The last of them, James II, became Catholic and therefore was hounded out of Great Britain in a carnival of treason that would have shamed a banana republic. His own daughter and his best general would both betray him.”

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Blessed Charles of Austria: A Man of Peace in a World at War

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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The Devil Unchained: The Ten Deaths of Rasputin

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works, including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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Charles V: The Man Who Saved Christendom

On April 16 at Christendom College, Founding President Dr. Warren Carroll delivered a lecture entitled “Charles V: The Man Who Saved Christendom.” The lecture—final in a series of history lectures delivered this spring—focused primarily on the person of Charles and his crucial role in the Diet of Worms.

“This period as a whole is the most dramatic in the history of Christendom; it’s not surprising that Shakespeare lived during it,” Carroll quipped.

“It was under Charles that Cortés and Magellan were sent,” Carroll said. “He sent Hernán Cortés to smash the Satanic Empire of Aztec Mexico, built on human sacrifice, making it a place which the Mother of God could visit, as she did in Guadalupe. It was Charles who sent Magellan and his men to make the first voyage around the world.”

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He was the author of numerous historical works including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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John Schmitz, A Catholic Hero: Rest in Peace

On March 26 at Christendom College, Founding President Dr. Warren Carroll delivered a lecture titled “John Schmitz, A Catholic Hero: Rest in Peace.” The lecture was the third in a series of history lectures delivered this spring.

The lecture was a vivid walk down memory lane with Carroll as he spoke of his esteem for his godfather and once-presidential candidate Congressman John Schmitz.

“John Schmitz was a true Catholic hero,’” Carroll said at the beginning of his lecture. “He was the bravest man I have ever known.”

Carroll was educated at Bates College, received a Doctorate in History from Columbia University, and was the founding president of Christendom College. After Carroll’s wife, Anne, Schmitz was the most influential person in Carroll’s conversion to Christianity. Both men were drawn to the conservative milieu of Orange County, California, of the early 1970’s. There, Carroll became Schmitz’s assistant and Schmitz was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Throughout his political career, Schmitz sought to make a difference in the in the nation and the world.

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The Protestant Revolt, Not a Reformation

On February 26 at Christendom College, Founding President Dr. Warren Carroll delivered a lecture titled “The Protestant Revolt, Not a Reformation.” The lecture was the second in a series of history lectures that are planned over the next few months.

The lecture was charged with intrepid statements on this turbulent period of Church History.

“Though most Protestants today do not know it, the destruction of the Catholic Church was the declared objective of the first Protestants,’” Carroll said at the beginning of his lecture. “They were rebels, not reformers.”

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He is the author of numerous historical works, including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.

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