On September 16, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) held a “Leadership Dinner” for Paul Rahe, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage and Professor of History at Hillsdale College. Guests-- students, faculty, and informed citizens—prepared for an intensive evening of conversation by reading Professor Rahe’s [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Charter Fellow Robert Paquette was selected by the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education as a contributing expert to a new website SeeThruEdu.com, which focuses on higher education reform. The site offers daily postings by leading [...]
Scott Milne, an undergraduate history major from Culver City, California, spent his summer as an intern at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), working with AHI Resident Fellow Christopher Hill to develop a new online Western Civilization text and sourcebook. Currently, many textbooks are produced under pressure from various [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization’s (AHI) is pleased to announce that Professor Douglas Egerton, Department of History at Le Moyne College, will be the inaugural speaker for the Publius Society’s fall Presidential Election series. Professor Egerton will speak on “The Election of 1860,” on Monday, September 10, 2012 at 4:20 [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization’s (AHI) is pleased to announce the upcoming fall 2012 meetings of the Publius Society. The Publius Society is an AHI Undergraduate Fellows program for those with a common interest in exploring outside the confines of the classroom, important issues of the American constitutional order and [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Paul A. Rahe, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage and Professor of History at Hillsdale College, will deliver this year's annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence on Monday, September 17, 2012 from [...]
Modern Americans consider tolerance a central, if not the central, political ideal of the Republic. When setting down the Bill of Rights that would limit areas of governmental intrusion, the Framers started off with the guarantee of tolerance in the freedoms of speech, assembly, and religion. Tolerance, many people believe, defines America more than any [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) congratulates Rochester Undergraduate Fellow Dan Wang on his recent publication in the Huffington Post. Mr. Wang is a junior majoring in economics at the University of Rochester and is in his second year as an Undergraduate Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute at Rochester. [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Resident Fellow, Christopher Hill, has accepted a research fellowship at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis for the coming academic year. Dr. Hill will work with the James Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, participating in a seminar on [...]
Roger Kimball, Academic Advisor to the Alexander Hamilton Institute of the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), was recently interviewed by Catholic World Report about his most recent book The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia, published by St. Augustine's Press. Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He [...]
