The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) will offer a free continuing education course on democracy this fall, on Monday evenings from September 9 to December 16. AHI courses are free and open to the public, including high school and college-age students. Professional credit is available for teachers. The course, “Majority [...]
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 [...]
In 2009, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) partnered with the Department of Political Science, Baylor University, to host a summer seminar on “Machiavelli and Shakespeare: Alternative Visions of Modern Politics.” Michael Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor, and Chairman, Department of Political Science, Notre Dame University and Catherine Heldt [...]
Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that May 11, 2019 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. This is the final edition of the student publication Enquiry for [...]
On April 26-27, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) co-sponsored with Colgate University’s Center for Freedom and Western Civilization, the Annual Undergraduate Conference in the American Polity. The conference features outstanding undergraduate research from a variety of disciplines including history, economics, philosophy, anthropology, religion, political science, and sociology. Patrick [...]
Andrew Juchno, co-leader of The Alexander Hamilton Institute Undergraduate Program at Hamilton College, has had a banner year. A government major from Paxton, Massachusetts, Juchno received in 2019 a scholarship to undertake graduate work at Yale Divinity School in the fall. Prior to his matriculation at Yale, Juchno will travel to Washington D.C., having earned [...]
Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the April 24, 2019 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, [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the annual Mary and David Nichols Conference in the Great Books will be held at Baylor University, Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1. This year’s conference ‘“Full of Fears and Full of Hopes’: Conversations with Tocqueville on the Problems [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Patrick Deneen, David A. Potenziani Memorial College Chair, University of Notre Dame, will keynote this year’s Annual Undergraduate Conference on the American Polity, April 26-27, at Colgate University. AHI is co-sponsoring the event with Colgate’s Center for Freedom and [...]
