The latest book by Roger Kimball, Academic Advisor to the Alexander Hamilton Institute of the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), receives a powerful review by the University Bookman. The review of his book The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia, is an indictment of where we are heading as a culture. Roger Kimball [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the fifth annual E. M. Bakwin Fellowship competition. The Bakwin Fellowship awards a stipend of $1,600 for advanced research in regional archives and libraries on subjects that comport with the central concerns of the AHI as defined in its charter. [...]
In April of each year, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) holds as the pièce de résistance of its annual programming a major colloquium. It brings together scholars, students, and informed citizens for 2 1/2 days of intensive conversation on a central theme. Named after Carl B. Menges, a graduate [...]
Roger Kimball, Academic Advisor to the Alexander Hamilton Institute of the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), was recently interviewed by Catholic World Report about his most recent book The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia, published by St. Augustine's Press. Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Dr. Erik Filipiak, the inaugural Theodore J. Eismeier Fellow in Political Science, has accepted a position as a visiting assistant professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross. He will teach courses in American politics and [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the Fifth Annual Carl B. Menges Colloquium will be held April 12-15, 2012, at the Turning Stone Resort which is located at 5218 Patrick Road, Verona, NY. The keynote address "Numismatics and Limited Government" will be given by social [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute (AHI) is pleased to announce that Carl Menges has accepted an invitation to join the Board of Directors of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). Mr. Menges has a long-standing interest in history and the founding of the United States. In 2001, he sponsored a conference at Hamilton College [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute holds annually as the piece de resistance of its thematic programming a major colloquium, named after Carl B. Menges, a businessman and philanthropist who has been a stalwart supporter of the AHI since its inception. Students from various colleges and universities participate in the colloquium, and, indeed, are required to perform [...]
Each year on 17 September, Constitution Day, the AHI awards prizes to those students who have demonstrated excellence in scholarship based on their participation in the AHI’s annual April colloquium at the Turning Stone Resort. […]
