AUDIO RECORDINGS OF SIX SESSIONS

May 1, Disk 1 (Session I: Meaning of Property)

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May 1, Disk 2

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May 1, Disk 3 (Session II: Property Rights in Human Beings)

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May 1, Disk 4

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May 1, Disk 5 (Session III: Property Rights In China)

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May 1, Disk 6

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May 2, Disk 1 (Session IV: Property Rights and War)

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May 2, Disk 2

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May 2, Disk 3 (Session V: Eminent Domain)

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May 2, Disk 5 (Session V: Kelo v New London)

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May 2, Disk 6

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The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father (New York: New York University Press, 2006) derives from a major conference, sponsored by Carl Menges, a charter member of the AHI's Board of Directors. Douglas Ambrose, co-editor of the volume, is one of the AHI's co-founders. This lauded volume, now in its third printing, contains eleven essays by leading authorities in the field.

"This superb collection of essays goes a considerable distance towards redressing the balance and towards restoring an American statesman to the central place that he occupied in his own time."

Paul Rahe, Hillsdale College

"This volume shows that political history is alive and vital, with much work still to do." Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Journal of American History

The New Criterion, the finest journal of arts and culture in the United States, has published an article ,"The World We Have Lost:  A Parable on the Academy," by Robert Paquette, one of the three founders of the AHI.  Paquette speaks on the implications of the Duke lacrosse case and of the collapse at Hamilton College of the original agreement to establish an "enduring edifice of learning devoted to American ideals and institutions."

This special issue, which is devoted to education, includes related essays on the state of the academy by an all-star class of commentators:  Roger Kimball, Alan Charles Kors, James Piereson, Charles Murray, and Victor Davis Hanson.

Held: April 10-13, 2008, Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, New York

Opening Banquet Proceedings and Keynote Address by John Stauffer
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Part 1 - J. Hunter Brown, Robert L. Paquette, Carl B. Menges, James Bradfield
Part 2 - James Bradfield (continued), Douglas Ambrose
Part 3 - Douglas Ambrose (continued), John Stauffer (keynote address: "Gerrit Smith and the Ambiguities of Social Reform")
Part 4 - John Stauffer (continued)

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