Dr. Bruce Frohnen’s Constitution Day lecture will be available to watch on Tuesday September 17, at 7:00 p.m. on The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization's (AHI's) YouTube channel, or on our website. Dr. Frohnen earned a Ph. D. in political science at Cornell University in 1988 and a J.D. at [...]
From the President’s Desk 4 December 2023 Message from The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Dear Friends of AHI: AHI solicits your support in time of need. AHI had weathered the Covid storm successfully, but inflation and the overall condition of the economy has bedeviled us. As prices soar, [...]
Timothy W. Burns, Professor of Political Science at Baylor University delivers the 16th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence on Constitution Day on September 17. The 2023 annual lecture is entitled “Two Visions of a Constitution: Adams and Publius.” https://youtu.be/hiIOEEjDIks
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Timothy W. Burns, Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, will deliver the 16th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence on Constitution Day, September 17. The lecture, “Two Visions of a Constitution: Adams and Publius,” will [...]
From the President’s Desk 5 December 2022 A Message from The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI): Dear Friends of AHI: We again ask for your support. AHI has weathered the Covid storm successfully during the past two years. But the deep political divide continues to exist in this country on [...]
Alexander Riley, Professor of Sociology, Bucknell University, delivers the 15th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence on Constitution Day, September 17 @ 7:00 p.m. He presents “Sacredness and the Constitution: A Properly Conservative View of our Most Important National Document” https://youtu.be/w8PzIM35Eas Professor Riley, an AHI senior fellow, earned his Ph.D. from the University of [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Alexander Riley, Professor of Sociology, Bucknell University, will deliver the 15th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence on Constitution Day, September 17. The lecture will be available on our website at 7:00 p.m. He will present “Sacredness and the [...]
On Constitution Day, September 17, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) partnered with Department of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to present the 14th Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence. Dr. Joseph Fornieri, an AHI senior fellow and professor of political science at [...]
“The United States Constitution,” observed Richard Epstein, one of the most cited legal scholars of his generation, “must, on any neutral evaluation, count as the greatest triumph of political statecraft in the history of the World.” To commemorate this great triumph, the Constitution’s framing and signing, Congress passed legislation in 2004 that set aside [...]
Carl B. Menges, the driving force behind the creation of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), passed away at his home in East Hampton, New York, on Wednesday September 8. “More than two decades ago,” observed AHI President Robert Paquette, “the idea of a center, inspired by the remarkable [...]
