The Remnant Trust has an actively growing collection of manuscripts, 1st and early edition works dealing with the topics of individual liberty and human dignity, some dating as early as 3000 B.C. The Trust’s collection comprises of over 1200 works.
The History of The Remnant Trust
The Remnant Trust began with a conversation about education and getting people to think. It was stated “The only thing that excites professors are old books”. It was decided the collection should focus on the ideas of liberty and dignity and the time period prior to the 20th century. The Remnant Trust was incorporated in 1997.
The Purpose of The Remnant Trust
Placing such “great and rare documents” in the hands of faculty and students may well lead to an improvement of their minds and spirits—directly and deliberately stimulated with the ideas inside those works and in accordance with the higher laws of life acknowledged by an engaged populus. So The Remnant Trust provide for use these works—The Wisdom of the Ages Athenaeum—to put forth a body of ideas, moral habits and beliefs, conventions and customs of the past to bridge time itself, and to invite students, faculty, and the public alike to join in intellectual conversations.
The Remnant Trust makes available to the general public, a world class collection of manuscripts, 1st and early edition works, for use in original form. Collections of this magnitude and quality are found deep in the archives of prestigious institutions, under lock and key and accessible only to a privileged few. By contrast The Remnant Trust’s vision has always been to provide the opportunity for people to hold, examine, read and discuss the pieces of the collection.