Douglas Ambrose, Charter Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute of the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and Carolyn C. and David M. Ellis ’38 Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Hamilton College, is a long-distance runner. Judging by his energetic performance as keynote speaker at the Tenth Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the September 13, 2017 issue of Enquiry has been published. All articles are available online and you can also find PDFs of each issue in the Archives section of the Enquiry website. Enquiry, is an independent publication sponsored by the AHI. A student-run publication, it [...]
As the 2017/2018 academic year gets underway, the September 6, 2017 issue of Enquiry, the independent student newsletter sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) has been published. All articles are available online and you can also find PDFs of each issue in the Archives section of the Enquiry website. The reins of editor-in-chief have been [...]
The Center for Statesmanship, Law, and Liberty (CSLL), an affiliate of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has announced a professional development seminar for middle school and secondary teachers on “Great Leaders of Rochester Reform: Frederick Douglass–Abolitionism; Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Rights–Women’s Rights, and Charles Grandison Finney–Religious Revivalism.” The [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) proudly announces the formation of two reading clusters on the Hamilton College campus. Professor Douglas Ambrose, the Carolyn C. and David M. Ellis ’38 Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Hamilton College, will lead the Alexander Hamilton History Initiative. Professor Ambrose has organized a [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Professor Douglas Ambrose, the Carolyn C. and David M. Ellis ’38 Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Hamilton College, will deliver the 2017 David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence. He will speak on “Revisiting the Idea of a Godless [...]
Roger Kimball, Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Academic Adviser recently published the article “Inebriates of Virtue” on iconoclasm and the restriction of free speech. Roger Kimball is editor and publisher of The New Criterion and President and publisher of ENCOUNTER BOOKS.
Mary Grabar, Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Resident Fellow, was praised for her work on black scholar George Schuyler in the recent article “Black and Conservative…and Forgotten,” published in The American Spectator. Mary Grabar holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia and taught college English for twenty years. She is also [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) will sponsor at Colgate University for the academic year, 2017-2018, a Thucydides reading cluster, led by Elizabeth L’Arrivee. Dr. L’Arrivee, a visiting lecturer at Colgate, earned a Ph. D. in political science in 2015 at Notre Dame University. She is a specialist in Hellenistic [...]
Landry Frei, a native of Bend, Oregon, spent four years of his undergraduate life actively participating in the programmatic activities of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). During his junior and senior years, he served as co-leader of the AHI’s Undergraduate Fellows program. A versatile young man, as comfortable in [...]
