Photographer: Tim Ryan, Cleveland, Ohio
Welcome
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted (1775)
"It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist # 1.
AHI Co-Sponsors Conference on Love and Fidelity, 10 April, at Hamilton College
AHI/Baylor University Receive Watson-Brown Foundation Grant
AHI Undergraduate Fellow Wins McKinney Prize
AHI Receives Grant to Continue AHI/Encounter Partnership
AHI Adviser Eugene Genovese Receives Kirkpatrick Freedom Award and Addresses CPAC
Genovese's Acceptance Remarks
College Newspaper Publishes Article on AHI
AHI Announces Major Colloquium, April 15-18: "Dedicated to a Proposition?: Examining the Relation between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution." Robert George to Keynote.
College Newspaper Publishes Article on AHI
AHI Announces Major Colloquium, April 15-18: "Dedicated to a Proposition?: Examining the Relation between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution." Robert George to Keynote.
AHI Advisor Robert George Featured in NY Times
Second Annual Bakwin Fellowship Announced
Read Paquette, "The Modern Academic Cauldron"
Michael Rizzo, University of Rochester Economist, Joins AHI Fellows
Read "Rough Going at Hamilton"
Read Peter Wood, President of National Association of Scholars, on Academic Freedom and Sustainability
Robert George and the Manhattan Declaration: A Call Of Christian Conscience
Anne Neal and ACTA Unveil What Will They Learn: A Guide to What College Rankings Don't Tell You
Read Paquette "War over a Trojan Horse" on Minding the Campus
ABOUT US
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) promotes rigorous scholarship and vigorous debate in the study of freedom, democracy, and capitalism.Three Hamilton College professors, Douglas Ambrose, James Bradfield, and Robert Paquette, inspired by the contributions of Alexander Hamilton to the founding and survival of the Republic, established the AHI as an independent entity, unaffiliated with Hamilton College, during the summer of 2007.
The AHI will offer a rich menu of scholarly activities--lectures, colloquia, conferences, fellowships, internships, and awards--to educational institutions in upstate New York and across the country in support of scrupulous research into American history and Western culture and of reasoned conversations about them. Programming will center on annual themes. Each year the AHI will sponsor an innovative colloquium that will bring together for intellectual exchanges senior experts in the subject under discussion and select undergraduates from multiple colleges.
In concept and implementation, the AHI owes a considerable debt to such centers of excellence as the James Madison Program at Princeton University and the Witherspoon Institute. With the help of kindred spirits on and off campus, we not only hope to enter into cooperative programming, but to build an enduring edifice of learning in American ideals and institutions.