Dan Hughes, the 2012 William “Bill” Vick fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) has completed his summer work and will soon transition to a job on Wall Street, training in banking and investment, with the firm of Charles Vista. Mr. Hughes spent much of his youth [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) congratulates Academic Advisor Robert P. George on the recent publication of his essay “Marriage, Religious Liberty, and ‘The Grand Bargain’” in Public Discourse, the on-line journal of the Witherspoon Institute. Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the inaugural annual competition for the Theodore J. Eismeier Fellowship in Political Science. The Eismeier Fellowship awards a stipend of $10,000 to an ABD or postdoctoral student in political science with a focus on United States government and the American [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Dr. Erik Filipiak, the inaugural Theodore J. Eismeier Fellow in Political Science, has accepted a position as a visiting assistant professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross. He will teach courses in American politics and [...]
When Michael Oakeshott died in 1990, Professor Jeffrey Hart of Dartmouth eulogized him as “the most important political thinker in the Anglo-Saxon tradition since Burke (and I [Hart] have not overlooked J. S. Mill).” William F. Buckley also reflected on Oakeshott’s contributions while recalling Friedrich Hayek’s thinking on the meaning of freedom. Oakeshott warned, Buckley [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) congratulates Charter Fellow Robert Paquette along with co-editor Rebecca Fox on their efforts to complete the fifth volume of Unbought Grace: An Elizabeth Fox Genovese Reader. The University of South Carolina Press has announced the publication of Volume 5, Unbought Grace: An Elizabeth Fox Genovese [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University has chosen AHI Undergraduate Fellow Max Schnidman to attend this year’s Outreach Conference. The Center “builds on the groundbreaking economic and political science theories” of James [...]
Clara Barton (1821-1912) founded in 1881 the American Association of the Red Cross. As a young woman in 1851, she attended a pioneering coeducational academy, the Liberal Institute, run by the Universalist Church in Clinton, New York. There she prepared for a life of self-sacrifice by engaging a demanding liberal arts curriculum that included math, [...]
