Mr. Paul Miller, a historian, writer, filmmaker, and photographer from SUNY-Albany, will present on the famous abolitionist Gerrit Smith on Saturday, April 1, at 3 p.m. Professor Smith is renowned for the documentary Searching for Timbuctoo, “the story of a little-known Black settlement in upstate New York.” The event is open to the public. [...]
Juliana Geran Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has published a book An Idea Betrayed: Jews, Liberalism, and the American Left with Academica Press. In her searching and erudite volume, Dr. Pilon focuses on the paradox of liberalism, its many permutations from the founding of this [...]
Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), was recently interviewed for a President’s Day article on cancel culture on college campuses. Student radicals and others have attacked presidential monuments, statues, building names, and supporters. In the February 20, 2023, issue of The College Fix entitled “Here are 16 Times Campus Cancel [...]
Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), is writing a biography of George Schuyler (1895-1977), an African American intellectual. To post-modern audiences, black and white alike, that name sounds unfamiliar, for authors of textbooks in American history have largely disappeared him from the record. Dr. Grabar would [...]
David Frisk, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), recently published a commentary on the battle over the speakership in Congress for the American Institute for Economic Research. AIER is a well-established nonprofit organization that promotes the value of personal freedom, free enterprise, property rights, limited government, and [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to offer two courses for the spring semester. Due to our classes’ popularity, advance signup directly with the individual course instructor is strongly recommended. Like all AHI courses, they are brought to you free of charge. Course #1. “The Civil War” [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the election of Paul Carrier, Adam Clark and James W. Coupe, Esq. to its board of directors. All three will assume their duties beginning January 1, 2023. Mr. Carrier is a Corporate Development Manager at Azenta Life Sciences. He [...]
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 [...]
David Nichols ranks as one of the most revered members of Baylor University’s political science department. Dr. Nichols retired in spring of 2021 after more than forty years of teaching at such places as Catholic University, Fordham University, and Baylor University. Former students, friends, and colleagues gathered in historic Old Town Alexandria for a [...]
