Carla Main, lawyer and journalist, author of the prizewinning book Bulldozed, Encounter Books, (2007), a riveting story about the abuse of eminent domain in Freeport, Texas, will speak at the Alexander Hamilton Institute (AHI) on Saturday, 4 October at 4:30 p.m, during Fallcoming Weekend at Hamilton College. The Wall Street Journal calls her book "a [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute and the Edmund Burke Association, a student group affiliated with the Hamilton College Republican Club, will co-sponsor the appearance of Barry Shain, Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. […]
Critics see the Electoral College as an anti-democratic and dangerous relic. Supporters see it as an important part of the architecture of the Constitution, which combines popular and geographic representation. […]
On September 17, Constitution Day, the Honorable Jeffrey S. Sutton delivered a lecture in the Hamilton College Chapel in honor of the Honorable David Aldrich Nelson, whom he succeeded on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. […]
The Christopher Dawson Society for the Study of Faith and Reason, founded by AHI Charter Fellow Douglas Ambrose, will begin its second year of programming on Thursday evening, 25 September, by hosting Gerald Russello, one of this country's leading authorities on Christopher Dawson (1889-1970). Russello, a lawyer and editor of The University Bookman, received [...]
On 17 September, Constitution Day, the AHI will celebrate its first anniversary by inaugurating the annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence. […]
David Nichols, Associate Professor of History at Baylor University and an AHI Senior Fellow, will speak on Constitution Day, Wednesday, 17 September, as an invited guest of Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York. […]
The Honorable Jeffrey S. Sutton, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, will present the inaugural David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence on Constitution Day, 17 September, at 7:30 pm in the Hamilton College Chapel. […]
Many of those who attended the AHI’s inaugural colloquium on the meaning of freedom, commented on the wit, grace, and intelligence of Professor H. Lee Cheek, who served as moderator of the six sessions during the two-day event. The AHI is pleased to announce that Professor Cheek has agreed to help us water the seed of educational reform [...]
The AHI’s inaugural experimental colloquium on the meaning of freedom in the antebellum debate about slavery brought together more than a 150 scholars, students, and informed lay persons for two and a half days of stimulating conversation. […]
