From the President’s Desk 6 December 2021 A Message from The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Dear Friends of AHI: We ask for your support. In 2022, AHI will celebrate its fifteenth birthday. During that time, we have had to be creative, agile, and resilient. The passing of Carl [...]
We are pleased to announce that The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) undergraduate fellows have released Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows, Volume IX, No. 5, November 22, 2021. This week's edition includes articles on "Babble On: Language and the Ivory Tower," and "What is the Meaning in Life?" [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) congratulates Kraig Kayser on his appointment to the board of directors of Seneca Foods Corporation. Mr. Kayser, also a member of AHI’s board of directors, will sit on Seneca’s Foods' nine-person board as “non-executive Chairman.” He fills a vacancy that resulted from the [...]
In 2013, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) established an annual Veterans Day lecture to honor General Josiah Bunting III, a charter member of AHI’s board of directors. For the ninth lecture in the series, AHI is honored to present Brigadier General (Retired) Michael R. Eastman. He speaks on [...]
We are pleased to announce that The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) undergraduate fellows have released Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows, Volume IX, No. 4, November 3, 2021. This week's edition includes articles on "Why Socialism Doesn't "Suck,"" and "Recommended Reading." The publication is devoted to the promotion [...]
We are pleased to announce that The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) undergraduate fellows have released Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows, Volume IX, No. 2, October 9, 2021. This week's edition includes articles on "The Exponential Unhappiness of Gen Z: Part I," and "Opinion: Salem on the [...]
In 2019, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) established an annual Columbus Day lecture to combat a growing body of ill-informed and often venomous historical misinformation about Columbus that had moved from the margins of college campuses into the public square. This year’s lecturer, Carol Delaney, Emerita Professor of Anthropology, [...]
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 [...]
In 2020, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) postponed its annual Mary and David Nichols Great Book Conference because of the Covid pandemic. We are pleased to announce that the department of Political Science at Baylor University has stepped up to co-sponsor the postponed event. It will occur at Baylor [...]
We are pleased to announce that The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) undergraduate fellows have released the first edition of the student publication for the fall semester. The publication is devoted to the promotion of “free thought and discourse.” Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows, Volume IX, [...]
