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An Interview with Harris Gaylord Warren: From the Borderlands to Paraguay*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

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Harris Gaylord Warren was, by common consent, the father of Paraguayan studies in the United States. His broad-ranging activities —from diplomatic undertakings in South America to military service in Italy to administrative and scholarly work at various North American universities—marked him as an historian of rare depth and insight. Not commonly known is that Dr. Warren began his career as a historian in the 1930s as a borderlands specialist. The Sword was their Passport: A History of American Filibustering in the Mexican Revolution (Baton Rouge, 1943) is yet recognized as the definitive work on North American adventurers in that turbulent era. As an officer in the United States Army in World War II he was selected for various military history projects. After the war Dr. Warren returned to teaching and then administration. At that time his publications ranged from texts to Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression, (New York, 1959).

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The Americas , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , April 1989 , pp. 443 - 460
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1989

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This interview was conducted by Jerry W. Cooney who is Professor of Latin American History at the University of Louisville and Thomas Lyle Whigham who is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the University of Georgia.

References

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HARRIS GAYLORD WARREN: Borderlands and General Latin America Bibliography

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United States Military History, And Miscellaneous Bibliography

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