The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) offers summer internships to worthy undergraduates. It also sponsors Enquiry, a student newsletter dedicated to “free thought and discourse.” Samantha “Sam” Benevelli, a rising Hamilton College senior and AHI undergraduate fellow from Killingworth, Connecticut, is one of two AHI summer interns for 2017. As part of her [...]
Lee Cheek, Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), was recently interviewed by LifeZette for the article “The Fight for the Fate of Richmond’s Confederate Monuments Begins.” Lee Cheek is Professor of Political Science and History, at East Georgia State College.
Timothy Minella, former leader of the undergraduate fellows program of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has accepted a position for the 2017-18 academic year as instructor in the Villanova University Augustine and Culture Seminar Program. The program, a required first-year, two-course sequence, teaches the great books of the Western [...]
Liberty Fund is a “private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.” It established, the Online Library of Law and Liberty to bring together scholars from all over the world into a forum within which discussion, debate, and review of issues related to “the first principles of [...]
The nation’s capital was once again host to a remarkable group of college students from throughout the United States, participants in the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization’s (AHI) increasingly well-known Washington Program on National Security (WAPONS). The program, now in its second year, was made possible by a generous grant from the Lynde and [...]
Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Executive Director Robert Paquette was a featured speaker at the first-ever gathering of faculty from ACTA’s Oases of Excellence, sponsored by ACTA and the Fund for Academic Renewal in June. Paquette spoke on “Serving Students and Community: The Case for Independence.” AHI Academic Adviser Robert George, [...]
Lee Cheek, Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), recently published an op-ed with Sean R. Busik on the legacy of the Founders in The Augusta Chronicle. Lee Cheek Jr., Ph.D. is Dean of the School of Social Sciences at East Georgia State College.
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) began the summer of its tenth year by hosting, June 15-17, the Ninth Annual Summer Conference with Baylor University’s Department of Political Science. Professor James W. Ceaser, Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, served as discussion leader on the [...]
Cambridge University Press has published the concluding volume of its four-volume World History of Slavery project. The final volume features essays by three scholars who serve as Academic Advisors to the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) as well as an essay by AHI Executive Director and Charter Fellow Robert Paquette. AHI Academic Advisers Stanley L. Engerman (John [...]
