A 60th anniversary celebration of the Schooltown Questers was held on July 16 at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) in Clinton, NY. Mayor Steven J. Bellona presented Cindy Majka, president, with a proclamation naming July 16, Schooltown Questers Day. AHI President and Executive Direector Robert L. Paquette and Rose [...]
On July 29, Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), published the article "American Concentration Camps? Where Would AOC and Other Millennials Get Such an Idea?" in PJ Media. In her article, Dr. Grabar talks about the impact of Howard Zinn's writings stating "If you [...]
On July 26, Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), published the article "How Howard Zinn’s Anti-American Textbook Inspired The Antifa Bombing Attempt," in The Federalist. In her article, Dr. Grabar states “A People’s History” places a wildly disproportionate amount of focus on the past sins [...]
This summer strains of Russian can be heard in the mansion that houses The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) as Edward Shvets, undergraduate fellow and 2019 summer intern, keeps in touch with his family. Edward hails from Brooklyn. He grew up in Brighton Beach, a community with a sizeable [...]
Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon, Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) recently published the review “Antisemitism: Here and Now,” by Deborah E. Lipstadt. Her review was published July 18,2019 in the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Pilon, who joined the AHI as a Senior Fellow in March [...]
On 29 June, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) completed its fourth annual Washington Program on National Security. It has been suggested that, in keeping with Washington’s acronym obsession, WAPONS should hereafter be known affectionately as the NSB – which, confidentially, strictly on a “need to know” basis, stands [...]
David Frisk, Resident Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has published a review of Children of the Silent Majority: Young Voters and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980 by Seth Blumenthal for Liberty Fund’s Law & Liberty website. The review focuses on young people's role in [...]
The Red Hen Inn, located in Lexington, Virginia, home of Washington and Lee University, appears to have adopted a politics of aggressive exclusion in deciding who can eat there. In June, 2018, co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to depart the premises because of her role as White House Press Secretary for President Donald [...]
H. Lee Cheek Jr., Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), recently published an op-ed in the Savannah Morning News, asking readers to "take long view of American liberty." In the op-ed, Cheek asks readers to reflect on "the foundations of our liberty that the American Founding [...]
