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Scrapbook materials include a family scrapbook that contains correspondence, photographs, family histories, newspaper clippings, military papers, and ephemera. Dated 1898-1967. ; Electronic version

Biographical sketch of Zachary Taylor--Anecdotes of Gen. Taylor, etc.--Appendix. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Military Service Inst.

One letter from Cadet Richard C. Taylor to his father, dated January 15, 1854. He describes in detail the circumstances surrounding the murder of his classmate Cadet Thomas Blackburn

On April 26, 2012, Trial Chamber II (Chamber) of the Special Court for Sierra
Leone (Special Court or Court) in The Hague convicted former Liberian president
Charles Ghankay Taylor of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from
November 30, 1996, to January 18, 2002, in the territory of Sierra Leone during
its civil war. Specifically, Taylor was found guilty of the crimes against
humanity of murder, rape, sexual slavery, enslavement and other inhumane acts, and
the war crimes of committing acts of terror, murder, outrages upon personal
dignity, cruel treatment, pillage, and conscripting or enlisting children under
the age of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate
actively in hostilities. In a separate judgment rendered on May 30, 2012, the
Chamber sentenced Taylor to a single term of fifty years for all the counts on
which the accused had been convicted.

Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858) poses a unique set of problems for an encyclopedist. The usual approach to writing an entry on a historical figure, namely presenting a straightforward summary of her major works and then offering a few words of appraisal, cannot be carried out in her case. This is because she worked in such close collaboration with John Stuart Mill that it is exceedingly difficult to disentangle her contributions to the products of their joint effort from his, and the few pieces that we can declare without fear of contradiction to have been written primarily by her—some of which are published, some not—are philosophically slight. In attempting to assess Taylor Mill's philosophical career, one encounters sharply conflicting reports about her intellect from people who knew her, contradictory evidence about what if any important philosophical works belong to her corpus as an author, and widely varying judgments about how much influence she exerted on Mill's thought and work.

This issue of Thesis Eleven celebrates the work of Charles Taylor, one of the most prolific and influential philosophers in the Western world today. Perhaps most widely recognized as a political philosopher, Taylor's work spans the fields of moral philosophy, epistemology and ontology; he is a philosophical anthropologist in the broadest and richest sense of the term. Taylor's approach is phenomenological-hermeneutics, and his anthropology can be summarized in his claim that human beings are 'self-interpreting animals'. As Ruth Abbey notes in this issue, Taylor is distinctive among political philosophers for his combination of theoretical and practical work, a theme that has persisted throughout his intellectual career, taking various forms, including having stood as a candidate for elected office in his early career, and penned important papers such as 'Social Theory as Practice' in a different context. Abbey points out that Taylor's theoretical work always retains a practical focus, motivated by a desire not merely to interpret the world, but to do so in such a way as to change it. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications and Thesis Eleven Co-op Ltd, copyright holder.]