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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.
Anne Neal and ACTA Publish Guide to Colleges: WhatWillTheyLearn.COM
William Vick AHI Internship Announced
Pamela Jensen and Dan Mahoney Join AHI As Senior Fellows
Read "An Episode at Hamilton--Part 1", "Part II", Part III
Read Response of National Association of Scholars
AHI Founders Contribute to Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas
"The Making of American Scripture" Course at the AHI Announced for Fall 2010
AHI Receives Grant from Koch Foundation for Hayek Studies
AHI Receives Grant for "The Making of American Scripture" Seminar
AHI Co-Founder Ambrose and Family Honored as "2010 Family of the Year"
Dr. Christopher Hill Joins AHI As Fellow
AHI Headquarters to House Archives and Media Center/Classroom
See Video of Robert George at the AHI: "Self-Mastery, Liberal Arts Education, and Academic Freedom"
AHI Co-Founder Ambrose and Family Honored as "2010 Family of the Year"
See Video of Robert George at the AHI: "Self-Mastery, Liberal Arts Education, and Academic Freedom"
See Video, Elizabeth Farrington (Hamilton Class 2010), "The AHI and Hamilton College"
Video of Thursday Night Ceremonies: President Erlanger and James Bradfield, Robert Paquette and Carl Menges, Douglas Ambrose.
Chris Hill Awarded Bakwin Fellowship
AHI Awarded Second Armstrong Foundation Grant
Read Paquette "Dictatorships and Double Standards"
Read Paquette "Dictatorships and Double Standards: Part II"
AHI Praised in Kimball Interview on NRO Online
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 Advisor Robert George Featured in NY Times
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
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.