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Line 1: {{Infobox company ~~{{Orphan\|date=February 2009}}~~ \| name = The Remnant Trust, Inc. ~~{{Unreferenced\|date=May 2007}}~~ \| logo = \| type = Non-profit organization ~~{{Infobox Company~~ ~~\| company_name = The Remnant Trust, Inc.~~ ~~\| company_logo = [[File:The_Remnant_Trust_Seal.tif\|thumb\|]]~~ ~~\| company_type = Non-profit organization~~ \| foundation = 1997 \| location_address = \| location_city = ~~Winona~~Executive ~~Lake,~~Headquarters: INIndianapolis, Indiana \| location_country = United States ~~\| location_~~ \| location = <!-- this parameter modifies "Headquarters" --> \| key_people = ~~Kristophor~~Chris ~~Bex~~Talley, ~~President~~Chairman and CEO \| homepage = [https://www.remnanttrust.org// Remnant Trust] ~~\| phone = 812-280-2222~~ \| dissolved = ~~\| email = info@theremnanttrust.com~~ \| footnotes = ~~\| company_slogan = Great ideas belong to everyone.~~ ~~\| homepage = http://www.theremnanttrust.com/~~ ~~\| dissolved =~~ ~~\| footnotes =~~ }} '''The Remnant Trust, Inc.''' is an educational [[Foundation (nonprofit organization)\|foundation]] located in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]]. It houses a collection of original and first edition works dealing with topics including [[individual liberty]] and [[human dignity]]. Some of the Trust's pieces date back as early as 1250. The Trust makes its collection available to colleges, universities, and other organizations for use by students, faculty, scholars and the general public. Those exposed are encouraged to touch, feel and read the originals. ==History== '''The Remnant Trust''' is an educational [[Foundation (nonprofit organization)\|foundation]] that shares an actively growing collection of original and first edition works dealing with the topics of [[liberty]] and [[dignity]] with some pieces dating as early as 1250. The Remnant Trust was established in 1997 by Brian Bex, an entrepreneur and television host noted for his politically conservative viewpoints. Bex accumulated a large collection of rare books and materials relating to American history and the theme of political liberty. Initially operating from a base in [[Hagerstown, Indiana]], Bex began making these materials available on loan to colleges.<ref name="Lauerman">Connie Lauerman, [https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/05/27/a-rare-opportunity-for-students-to-get-in-touch-with-history/ "A Rare Opportunity For Students To Get In Touch With History"], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', May 27, 1998.</ref> By 2006, the collection had moved to a new home in a renovated [[Carnegie Library]] at [[Warder Park]] in [[Jeffersonville, Indiana]].<ref>Paula Burba, [http://archive.courier-journal.com/article/20051010/NEWS01/510100361/Remnant-Trust-grows-new-home-prepared-S-Indiana "Remnant Trust grows as new home prepared in S. Indiana"], ''[[The Courier-Journal]]'', October 10, 2005.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140629075716/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1N1-114455665008F718.html "Rare works collection goes public"], [[Associated Press]] in ''[[Post-Tribune (Indiana newspaper)\|Post-Tribune]]'', August 21, 2006.</ref> The Trust makes this collection available to colleges, universities, and other organizations for use by students, faculty, scholars and the general public. Those exposed are encouraged to touch, feel and read the originals. Generally, titles are loaned for a [[semester]] to educational entities that choose specific displays that are tailored to each institution. Serving multiple institutions each semester, The Remnant Trust is normally booked a couple of years in advance giving adequate time to plan. ~~== Mission statement ==~~ The mission of The Remnant Trust is to elevate educational standards and the public's understanding of individual liberty and human dignity through the precedent setting, hands on availability of the world's great ideas in original form ... To raise consciousness of the most significant documents that have shaped America: The Great Experiment ... to raise the spirits of each generation to think the grandest thoughts & be guided by the most profound idealism, implementing [[Ralph Waldo Emerson\|Emerson's]] thesis on Man Thinking ... to provide, through sharing, those works moving [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe's]] vision into reality: to think is easy, to act is hard, but the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with one's thinking ... to be the world's finest repository of the great ideas that have propelled Man through the centuries from earth to the stars ... to be free, to think, speak & act in keeping with the greatest of enduring assets: Reason, with justice for all ... Great ideas belong to everyone. ~~== Previously hosted institutions ==~~ [[Calvin College]], Grand Rapids, Michigan [[Denison University]] [[Hanover College]], Hanover, Indiana [[Indiana University]] [[Indiana University East]], Richmond, Indiana [[Mount St. Mary's University]], Emmitsburg, Maryland [[South Dakota State]] [[University of Maine]] [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]] [[Vanderbilt University]] ~~== Future hosting institutions ==~~ In 2009, the Trust announced that it would move again, due to disagreements with the library foundation over the condition of the building.<ref>David A. Mann, [http://www.newsandtribune.com/clarkcounty/x519392944/Jeffersonville-leaders-look-ahead-at-fate-of-Carnegie-Library-after-Remnant-Trust-departs/print "Jeffersonville leaders look ahead at fate of Carnegie Library after Remnant Trust departs: The remnant fuss"], ''[[News and Tribune]]'', April 18, 2009.</ref> The Trust relocated to the former [[Billy Sunday]] museum at [[Grace College and Theological Seminary\|Grace College]] in [[Winona Lake, Indiana]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140629075712/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-25274757.html "The Remnant Trust Moves to Winona Lake"], ''Manufacturing Close-Up'', June 17, 2010 .</ref><ref>Kerry Hubbart, [http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101204/EDITORIAL/12040340 "Remnant Trust headquarters moves closer to Fort Wayne"] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518085037/http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20101204%2FEDITORIAL%2F12040340 \|date=2014-05-18 }}, ''[[The News-Sentinel]]'', December 4, 2010.</ref> In April 2014, a new permanent home for the collection was announced, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock, Texas]].<ref>Blake Ursch, [http://lubbockonline.com/education/2014-05-04/tech-be-permanent-home-collection-priceless-manuscripts#.U3f_s3Zabms "Tech to be permanent home of collection of priceless manuscripts"], ''[[Lubbock Avalanche-Journal]]'', May 4, 2014.</ref> In January 2022, the Trust relocated to Indianapolis, Indiana. [[West Texas A&M University]], Canyon, Texas ~~- staring August of 2011~~ [[Ivy Tech Bloomington]], Bloomington, Indiana ~~- starting August 2011~~ [[Texas Tech University]], Lubbock, Texas ~~- starting January 2012~~ [[Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne]], Fort Wayne, Indiana ~~- starting August 2012~~ ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.remnanttrust.org/ The Remnant Trust] {{Texas Tech University}} ~~==A selection of works in the collection==~~ ''Bill of Rights Journal of the First Session of the Senate of the United States of America, begun and held at the City of New York March 4th 1789'', 1789 ''[[Papers of the Continental Congress\|Complete Proceedings of the First Continental Congress]]'', 1775 ''[[United States Declaration of Independence\|Declaration of Independence]]'', 1776 ''[[Emancipation Proclamation]]'', 1862 ''[[Federalist Papers\|The Federalist]]'', 1788 ''Illustrated Bible'', 1791 ''Intolerable Act'' - ([[Stamp Act 1765\|Stamp Act]]), 1766 ''[[Magna Carta]]'', 1542 ''Pamphlet Printing of the [[United States Constitution]]'', 1787 [[John Adams]], ''A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America'', 1787 [[Thomas à Kempis]], ''[[The Imitation of Christ (book)\|Imitation of Christ]]'', 1497 [[Thomas Aquinas]], ''[[Summa Theologica]]'', 1496 [[Aristotle]], ''Opera'', 1496 [[Augustine of Hippo\|Saint Augustine]], ''[[Confessions (St. Augustine)\|Confessions]]'', 1491 Saint Augustine, ''[[City of God (book)\|Citie of God]]'', 1610 [[Francis Bacon]], ''[[Essays (Francis Bacon)\|Essays or Counsels, Civill and Morall]]'', 1629 [[Frédéric Bastiat]], ''Twelve pamphlets'' - including ''The Law'', 1850 [[William Blackstone]], ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England]]'', 1771 [[Edmund Burke]], ''[[Reflections on the Revolution in France]] bound with Three Responses'', 1790 [[John Calvin]], ''Commentary upon the Prophecie of Isaiah'', 1609 John Calvin, ''[[Institutes of the Christian Religion\|Institutes]]'', 1578 [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]], ''[[Catiline Orations\|Orations]]'', 1547 [[Confucius]], ''The Morals of Confucius'', 1691 [[James Fenimore Cooper]], ''The American Democrat, or Hints on the Social Civic Relations of the United States of America'', 1838 [[J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur\|Crèvecœur]], ''[[Letters from an American Farmer]]'', 1782 [[Richard de Bury]], ''Philobiblon'', 1832 [[Demosthenes]], ''The Three Orations of Demosthenes'', 1570 [[Frederick Douglass]], ''[[Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave]]'', 1848 [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)\|Jonathan Edwards]], ''On the Will'', 1754 [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Essays'' - including ''[[Self-Reliance]]'', 1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson, ''Miscellanies: embracing Nature, Addresses and Lectures'', 1856 [[Desiderius Erasmus]], ''[[The Praise of Folly]]'' - (''Moriae Encomium''), 1549 [[Euclid]], ''The First Six Elements of Geometry'', 1705 [[John Foxe]], ''[[Foxe's Book of Martyrs]]'', 1610 [[Benjamin Franklin]], ''Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society Founding Document'', 1787 [[Galileo Galilei]], ''Dialogo di Galileo Galilei linceo matematico supreme dello studio di padova'' - (Galileo's Dialogues), 1710 [[Edward Gibbon]], ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]'', 1777 [[William Godwin]], ''[[Political Justice\|An Inquiry Concerning Political Justice]]'', 1796 [[Goethe]], ''[[Goethe's Faust\|Faust]]'', 1833 [[James Harrington]], ''[[The Commonwealth of Oceana]]'', 1656 [[Thomas Hobbes]], ''[[Leviathan (book)\|Leviathan]]'', 1651 [[Richard Hooker]], ''On the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie'', 1593 [[David Hume]], ''[[An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding\|Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding]]'', 1748 [[John of Salisbury]], ''[[Policraticus]]'', 1595 [[Immanuel Kant]], ''Critik Der Practischen Vernunft'', - ([[Critique of Practical Reason]]), 1788 [[Abraham Lincoln]], ''[[Gettysburg Address]]'', 1863 [[John Locke]], ''[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]'', 1690 John Locke, ''[[Two Treatises of Government]]'', 1694 [[Martin Luther]], ''Obedience of a Christian Man'', 1548 [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], ''[[The Prince]]'', 1640 [[Thomas Robert Malthus]], ''Principles of Political Economy'', 1820 [[Marcus Aurelius]], ''[[Meditations]]'', 1635 [[Marsilius of Padua]], ''[[Defensor Pacis]]'', 1522 [[John Milton]], ''[[Areopagitica]]'', 1644 [[Bernard de Mandeville]], ''[[The Fable of the Bees]]'', 1728 [[Karl Marx]], ''[[Das Kapital\|Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production]]'', 1889 [[John Stuart Mill]], ''[[On Liberty]]'', 1859 [[Michel de Montaigne\|Michael Seigneur de Montaigne]], ''[[Essays (Montaigne)\|Essays]]'', 1685 [[Montesquieu]], ''[[The Spirit of the Laws]]'', 1752 [[Thomas More]], ''[[Utopia (book)\|Utopia]]'', 1624 [[Isaac Newton]], ''[[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica\|The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy]]'', 1729 [[Albert Jay Nock]], ''Our Enemy the State'', 1935 [[George Orwell]], ''[[Animal Farm]]'', 1946 George Orwell, ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', 1949 [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'', 1505 [[Thomas Paine]], ''[[Common Sense (pamphlet)\|Common Sense]]'', 1776 Thomas Paine, ''[[Rights of Man]]'', 1792 [[William Penn]], ''The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience'', 1670 [[Plato]], ''[[The Republic (Plato)\|The Republic]]'', 1763 [[Plutarch]], ''The Virtues of Women'' and the ''[[Parallel Lives]]'', 1485 [[Matthew Poole]], ''The Nullity of the Roman Faith, or a Blow at the Root of the Romish Church'', 1666 [[Ayn Rand]], ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', 1957 [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], ''[[Social Contract (Rousseau)\|Du Contrat Social]]'', 1762 [[Albert Schweitzer]], ''The Decay and The Restoration of Civilization'', 1923 [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], ''Declaration of Rights'', 1819 [[Algernon Sidney]], ''Discourses Concerning Government'', 1698 [[Adam Smith]], ''[[The Wealth of Nations\|Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations]]'', 1776 Adam Smith, ''[[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]]'', 1759 [[Herbert Spencer]], ''The Man Versus the State'', 1884 [[Henry David Thoreau]], ''A Yankee in Canada'', 1866 [[Thucydides]], ''[[History of the Peloponnesian War]]'', 1550 [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], ''[[Democracy in America]]'', 1836 [[John Trenchard]] & [[Thomas Gordon]], ''[[Cato's Letters]]'', 1724 [[Mary Wollstonecraft]], ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]'', 1792 [[John Wycliffe]], ''[[Wyclif's Bible\|New Testament]]'', 1731 [[John Peter Zenger]], ''The Trial of John Peter Zenger'', 1738 {{DEFAULTSORT:Remnant Trust}} [[Category:Non-profit organizations based in ~~the~~Lubbock, ~~United States~~Texas]] [[Category:Texas Tech University]] [[Category:Organizations established in 1997]] [[Category:1997 establishments in Indiana]] [[Category:Organizations based in Lubbock, Texas]]