Academic Programs & Resources

Dr. Stephen Bryen Discusses Cyber Security with AHI-WAPONS Students

On June 27th 2018 to the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Washington Program on National Security (WAPONS) spent some time listening to Dr. Stephen Bryen, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Trade Security Policy about cyber security. Dr. Bryen recently blogged about his session with the students "Cyber Security [...]

AHI Sponsors Thucydides Reading Cluster at Colgate University

At the turn of the twentieth century, most school children learned that Thucydides had earned the reputation as one of the greatest historians ever known. Higher education at that time consisted of reading great books under directed instruction cover to cover. At a recent event at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western [...]

Mary and David Nichols Honored at Annual AHI-Baylor Conference

On May 9-10 at Baylor University, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and the Department of Political Science, Baylor University, held their tenth annual summer conference.  Daniel Burns, Assistant Professor of Politics, University of Dallas, directed five sessions devoted to “Cicero:  Statesmanship and Constitutionalism.”  In opening the conference, Timothy Burns, [...]

AHI Charter Fellow James Bradfield Speaks on the Coase Theorem

James Bradfield, Hamilton College Emeritus Professor of Economics On Sunday, April 29, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) welcomed back to AHI headquarters James Bradfield, Hamilton College Emeritus Professor of Economics and one of the three professorial co-founders of AHI.  Professor Bradfield spoke to a mixed audience [...]

Historian Andrew Porwancher Discusses Washington’s Farewell Oration at AHI Leadership Dinner

On April 23 the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) hosted Andrew Porwancher, Wick Cary Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma.  Dr. Porwancher has an eagerly anticipated book in press The Jewish Founding Father: Alexander Hamilton's Hidden Life (Harvard University Press, 2019).  After enjoying drinks and hors’ d’oeuvres [...]

Video: AHI Sponsored Panel Discussion “Alexander Hamilton: What You Should Know”

Video of the April 21 panel discussion, “Alexander Hamilton: What You Should Know,” sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York.  Scores of Hamilton fans and history buffs packed the museum’s auditorium to hear three accomplished scholars, all of whom have [...]

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