The mission of The Remnant Trust is to elevate educational standards & the public’s understanding of individual liberty & human dignity through the precedent setting, hands on availability of the world’s great ideas in original form.

To serve that mission, the collection will be open to view in Odum Library throughout the Spring 2015 semester, located in the 1st floor lobby that faces the creek and Fine Arts building.

Special events will be scheduled throughout the exhibit for a hands on experience with the texts. For open case events, please see below. To request a private hands on experience for your group, class, or club, please contact our Archives department via email.

Closed Case

Ongoing
January 1, 2015 – July 2015
8:00 am – 9:00 pm

Grand Opening
February 26, 2015
6:00pm

Open Case and Hands On

Thursdays from 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Fridays from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
First Saturdays of each month from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm.

By Appointment – click to schedule

Faculty Lecture Series

Slavery and Its Discontents as Represented in the Remnant Trust
Dr. Tom Aiello, Dr. Larry Rivers, and Dr. Kendric Coleman
7:00pm on March 31, 2015
Student Union Theatre

Faculty Roundtable on the Major Religious and Philosophical Texts of the VSU Remnant Trust Collection
Dr. Fred Downing – Works of Josephus
Dr. Lily Vuong – Ethiopian Magic Scroll
Dr. Mike Stoltzfus – Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions
Dr. Cristobal Serran-Pagan – Hildegard of Bingen Scivias libri tres
Dr. Lavonna Lovern – Koran
Dr. Christine James – Mary Wollstonecraft Letters
7:30pm on April 8, 2015
Odum Library Auditorium

Past Lectures

This Most Beautiful System: The Principia of Isaac Newton
Dr. Kenneth Rumstay
7:00pm on March 17, 2015
Odum Library Auditorium