In 2015, Professor Emerita Lucille M. Schultz donated to the University of Cincinnati her set of composition materials gathered from fifteen libraries and collections around the country.

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Christopher Carter is Divisional Dean of Humanities at the University of Cincinnati. His recent books include Rhetorical Exposures: Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography, Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema, and The Corruption of Ethos in Fortress America: Billionaires, Bureaucrats, and Body Slams. Russel K. Durst is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in composition, writing pedagogy and research, and English linguistics. He has published numerous books, articles, and chapters in the field of composition studies.

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Lucille M. Schultz: Foreword - Christopher Carter and Russel K. Durst: Textbook Histories and Testimonial Legacies - Christopher Carter: Testimony of the Senses: Materialist Pedagogy in Nineteenth-Century Composition Textbooks - Russel K. Durst: Testimony of the Tongue: Grammar, Aspirational Pedagogy, and the Cult of Correctness in Long- Nineteenth- Century Composition - Daniel Floyd: Composing American - Rhiannon Scharnhorst: Jessie Macmillan Anderson: A Composition Microhistory - Kathleen Spada: Elizabeth Spalding: Fellow- Worker in Composition - Christopher Carter and Russel K. Durst: The Long Memory - Contributors - Index.