Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Senior Fellow Juliana Geran Pilon and her husband Roger Pilon, member of the AHI’s Board of Academic Advisors, participated in the University of Chicago’s Ninth Annual Career Conference for graduate students and postdocs on April 6, 2018. The Pilons, who between them have five U of [...]
On April 2 and 3, Douglas Ambrose, Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Charter Fellow, visited Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, to deliver a public lecture and conduct a seminar discussion in a course on the American Founding. Ambrose was the invited guest of Mercer's Thomas C. and Romana E. McDonald [...]
The final schedule has been released for Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI)'s Annual Undergraduate Conference on the American Polity at Colgate University, April 13-14. The event will feature Russian-born journalist Cathy Young and Jamie Muir, a philosopher who specializes in education. The annual conference features outstanding undergraduate research from a [...]
Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the April 4, 2018 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, it [...]
AHI Resident Fellow David Frisk delivers first in a series of continuing education lectures for the spring 2018 course: “Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan: The Making of an American Century.” https://youtu.be/voEl13e48vc
Hear everything you need to know about one of America’s most influential Founding Fathers Panel discussion: Alexander Hamilton: What You Should Know Saturday, April 21 at 4:00 p.m. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York Admission: Free. (Seating is limited.) COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown invites the public to “Alexander Hamilton: What You Should Know”–an in-depth panel discussion delving [...]
Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Academic Adviser Harvey Mansfield was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal on "Manhood in the Age of Trump." Harvey Mansfield, is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, Harvard University.
In 2017, Douglas Ambrose, Charter Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) published the The Sweetness of Life: Southern Planters at Home, the unfinished manuscript of Eugene D. Genovese (1930-2012), one of the most influential and controversial historians of his generation. In a recent review of the book in [...]
On March 15, Robert Paquette, Executive Director of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), traveled to the Williamsburg Lodge in historic Williamsburg Virginia, to participate in a colloquium on Thomas Jefferson. Kevin R. C. Gutzman, Professor of History, Western Connecticut State University, an accomplished scholar on the founding period, organized [...]
Undergraduates at Loyola University Maryland are continuing their intensive reading of Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws (1748) under the auspices of Diana Schaub. Dr. Schaub, an acclaimed scholar who specializes in political philosophy, is the author of Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (1995). Tocqueville reading group at Loyola University Maryland Montesquieu ranks as one of [...]
