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The incarnation of Spelman College began in the post-reconstruction South when two white women from Massachusetts implemented a vision of liberal arts education for black women in Atlanta, Georgia.  John D. Rockefeller, attracted to the vision, financed it.  The name changed from the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in 1881, to Spelman Seminary (after Laura Spelman [...]

Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth published a book entitled It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom (2022).  Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, finds it disappointing. Indeed, Dr. Riley, Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University, describes Bérubé and Ruth’s study as “a [...]

This year's conference was the 14th sponsored by AHI and the fourth conference since it moved from Clinton, NY to Waco, Texas. Thirty-one participants were in attendance for the two-day event. Discussions included selections from James Wilson’s Lectures on the Law, Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution, and Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of [...]

Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, has recently written a book An Idea Betrayed:  Jews, Liberalism, and the American Left in which she explores the paradox of liberalism.  Dr. Pilon continues to explore this theme in “Classical, New, or Conservative Liberalism?” in the April 20 issue of [...]

Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has criticized the University of California Berkeley for a campaign to “un-name” buildings on campus. Dr. Grabar’s remarks were quoted in an article in The College Fix entitled “UC Berkeley Strips Another Name Off Building but Activists Want More.” [...]