The Alexander Hamilton Institute of Rochester will sponsor Liberty Week, Sunday, March, 25 – Friday, March 30, 2012. Liberty Week is a celebration of democratic principles that our nation was founded upon and events will feature a series of speakers from the social sciences. On Sunday, March 25, 2012, Robert McNamara, Attorney for the Institute [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Dr. James Brewer Stewart, James Wallace Professor of History, Emeritus, at Macalester College and the founder and director of Historians Against Slavery, will speak on modern slavery and human trafficking, on April 6, 2012, at 4:15 p.m. in room [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and the Jewish Community Federation of the Mohawk Valley are pleased to announce the screening of “Unmasked: Judeophobia” with Producer Gloria Z. Greenfield, on April 1, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at 125 Kirner Johnson, Hamilton College. The documentary contains over 70 expert interviews, including [...]
Since its inception in 2007, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) has used its headquarters as a place for scholars passing through the region or who intend to spend time researching in any number of the prominent archives and repositories in upstate New York. Carol Medlicott, Associate Professor in the [...]
Professor Robert Paquette, Charter Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) will speak at Emory University on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. on the history of the AHI and why focus on western civilization. Radio Interview with Bob Paquette and Mary Grabar [...]
During the fall semester, 2011, AHI Undergraduate fellow Ian Thresher attended a seminar, “The Making of American Scripture,” taught by AHI Charter Fellow Robert Paquette. The course, derived from the AHI’s 2010 Carl B. Menges Colloquium, focused on the evolving relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution from the founding of the [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Israel Ortega of the Heritage Foundation will speak on the Election of 2012, March 28, 4:30pm – 6:00pm at the Alexander Hamilton Institute. Mr. Ortega talk will focus on such issues as the Latino vote, promoting economic opportunity and [...]
AHI Undergraduate Fellow Alex Rued has accepted a position at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). A non-partisan organization founded in 1973, ALEC has as one of its core missions the cultivation throughout the United States of the “Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty.” ALEC conducts a policy- [...]
On President’s Day, Dr. Steve Ealy, Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, a non-profit organization "devoted to the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals," visited the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) to speak to two audiences. In the afternoon, he spoke with a class of [...]
Anthony (Mark) Garcia, a charter member of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Undergraduate Fellows program, is not only thriving at Vanderbilt Law School, but as a second year student, competed along with 140 Vanderbilt students in Vanderbilt’s Moot Court competition. Mark advanced to the final round of the competition, [...]
