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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.
AHI Director Anne Neal in Wall Street Journal on Where Were the Trustees?
AHI-Rochester Awarded Koch Foundation Grant
Heritage Foundation's Lachlan Markay Speaks on Freedom and the AHI
AHI Advisor Eugene D. Genovese Interviewed in National Review
Charles G. Koch Awarded William E. Simon Prize
AHI Director Anne Neal Cited in What's Your Kid Getting From College?
Marc Elias Joins AHI Board of Academic Advisors
Mohawk Valley Monthly Book Club to Focus on Biography and Economics for 2011-2012
Edmund Burke Association to Sponsor Series on Bertrand de Jouvenel
Harlan Calkins, CEO of Rochester Midland, Joins AHI Board of Directors
Theodore J. Eismeier Fellowship Announced
Paquette Invited to Conference at Koch Headquarters in Wichita
AHI Advisor Roger Kimball on Annie Sprinkle and the NY Times
Paquette Interviewed by Watson-Brown Foundation on the State of Higher Education
AHI Fellows Contribute to Multivolume Selected Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Professor Paul Cantor Joins AHI Board of Academic Advisors
AHI Adviser Harvey Mansfield on the Curricular Swindle
Read "An Episode at Hamilton--Part I", "Part II", Part III
Read Response of National Association of Scholars
ACTA to Hamilton's Board of Trustees
Read Paquette "Dictatorships and Double Standards"
Read Paquette "Dictatorships and Double Standards: Part II"
Read Paquette "Dictatorships and Double Standards: Part III"
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 offers 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 sponsors an innovative colloquium that brings 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.