During the 2017-2018 academic year, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is sponsoring at Colgate University a reading cluster devoted to Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. On September 28, members of the group attended at the Colgate Inn in Hamilton, N.Y., a Leadership Dinner that featured an expert on Thucydides, [...]
Eugene D. Genovese (1930-2012) ranks as one of the most influential historians and public intellectuals of his generation. As Le Moyne College Professor of History Douglas R. Egerton, long-time friend of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), recently stated, “No historian played a larger role” than Genovese “in recovering the complicated, [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the September 27, 2017 issue of Enquiry has been published. All articles are available online and you can also find PDFs of each issue in the Archives section of the Enquiry website. Enquiry, is an independent publication sponsored by the AHI. A student-run publication, it has [...]
It was a chance meeting, spurred by a question that his adviser could not answer, that led attorney-at-law Thomas Cheeseman in 2008, during the first few days of his freshman year at Hamilton College, to the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). The answer to that question by AHI charter [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the September 21, 2017 issue of Enquiry has been published. All articles are available online and you can also find PDFs of each issue in the Archives section of the Enquiry website. Enquiry, is an independent publication sponsored by the AHI. A student-run publication, it [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and Colgate’s Center for Freedom and Western Civilization will co-sponsor a public lecture by Dr. Mary P. Nichols, “Leaders and Leadership in Thucydides’s History.” The event will take place Thursday, September 28, 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., at 27 Persson Auditorium, Colgate University. The lecture is [...]
Douglas Ambrose, Charter Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute of the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and Carolyn C. and David M. Ellis ’38 Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Hamilton College, is a long-distance runner. Judging by his energetic performance as keynote speaker at the Tenth Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the September 13, 2017 issue of Enquiry has been published. All articles are available online and you can also find PDFs of each issue in the Archives section of the Enquiry website. Enquiry, is an independent publication sponsored by the AHI. A student-run publication, it [...]
As the 2017/2018 academic year gets underway, the September 6, 2017 issue of Enquiry, the independent student newsletter sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) has been published. All articles are available online and you can also find PDFs of each issue in the Archives section of the Enquiry website. The reins of editor-in-chief have been [...]
The Center for Statesmanship, Law, and Liberty (CSLL), an affiliate of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has announced a professional development seminar for middle school and secondary teachers on “Great Leaders of Rochester Reform: Frederick Douglass–Abolitionism; Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Rights–Women’s Rights, and Charles Grandison Finney–Religious Revivalism.” The [...]
