Academic Programs & Resources

AHI Summer Conference June 11-13 on Patriotism, Ancient and Modern

In 2018, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) announced that its annual summer conference, co-sponsored with Baylor University’s Department of Political Science, would be renamed the Mary and David Nichols Annual Conference in the Great Books. In doing so, AHI honored two outstanding professors who had thrown their support [...]

Dean Ball Joins AHI’s Board of Directors

The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the unanimous election of Dean Woodley Ball to its board of directors. Mr. Ball currently serves as Executive Director of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, a Vermont-based non-profit dedicated to educating the American public about the values and accomplishments [...]

AHI’s Mary Grabar to Speak on “Rescuing History” from the 1619 Project

Legal Insurrection, a popular website created by Cornell University law professor William Jacobson, a Hamilton College alumnus, has invited Mary Grabar to participate in a special virtual event, “Rescuing History and Education from the 1619 Project.”  The event will take place on Sunday, March 21, at 8:00 p.m.  Those interested in attending must preregister [...]

“Enquiry:” March 10, 2021

Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that student-run newsletter Enquiry, has published the latest edition of Enquiry, Volume VIII, No. 7, March 10, 2021. Enquiry, is an AHI-sponsored publication devoted to the promotion of “free thought and discourse.”

“Enquiry:” A New Semester Begins

Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that student-run newsletter Enquiry, has published the first edition of the Spring semester. The latest edition of Enquiry, Volume VIII, No. 6, February 23, 2021. Enquiry, is an AHI-sponsored publication devoted to the promotion of “free thought and discourse.”

AHI’s Paquette Speaks at National Webinar

The National Association of Scholars (NAS) held a national webinar “Fringe History, Flawed Scholarship” on February 3.  Robert Paquette, President of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) was one of four speakers invited to comment on the New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project.  Ian Rowe, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise [...]

AHI Announces Four New Zoom Reading Clusters to Begin in February

In August 2020, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) announced that it would respond to the cancellation and postponement of programmatic activities because of the Covid pandemic by creating four reading clusters, open to a national audience, using Zoom.  By all reports, AHI’s experiment in remote learning proved successful. In [...]

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