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 [...]
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 [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) will offer an adult education course, “Abraham Lincoln: Leader and Legend.” Taught by AHI Resident Fellow Dr. David Frisk, the course is free of charge and will be held Monday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30 p. m., from September 11 to December 11, at AHI [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) offers summer internships to worthy undergraduates. It also sponsors Enquiry, a student newsletter dedicated to “free thought and discourse.” Samantha “Sam” Benevelli, a rising Hamilton College senior and AHI undergraduate fellow from Killingworth, Connecticut, is one of two AHI summer interns for 2017. As part of her [...]
The nation’s capital was once again host to a remarkable group of college students from throughout the United States, participants in the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization’s (AHI) increasingly well-known Washington Program on National Security (WAPONS). The program, now in its second year, was made possible by a generous grant from the Lynde and [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) began the summer of its tenth year by hosting, June 15-17, the Ninth Annual Summer Conference with Baylor University’s Department of Political Science. Professor James W. Ceaser, Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, served as discussion leader on the [...]
