Annual Report 2013 Promoting Civic Literacy

The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization Annual Report 2013 Promoting Civic Literacy

The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) seeks to promote excellence in scholarship through the study of freedom, democracy, and capitalism. Founded on Constitution Day, September 17, 2007, the AHI was established as an independent center devoted to the study of American ideals and institutions.

It rests on a traditional understanding of liberal arts curriculum as a means by which truth is pursued, the responsibilities of freedom are explained, and the dignity of moral beings is cultivated by studying what the best and brightest in the Western tradition have thought and said throughout the ages.

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Mission To create programs that provide for the innovative teaching of civic and economic knowledge in order to promote a genuine free marketplace of ideas.

Reach of Student Programming: Participation and Engagement is Strong The AHI offers programs that strive to elevate civic and economic literacy. They include colloquia, courses, lectures, reading groups, internships, and fellowships. During 2013 the AHI engaged hundreds of students on multiple campuses, extending its reach to students and adults with a number of initiatives. The AHI has maintained links with the Department of Political Science at Baylor University, and, indeed, the annual summer conference co- sponsored with them continues to thrive. At our April colloquium, students from Skidmore College attended for the first time, and the AHI is currently partnering with Skidmore’s Benjamin Franklin Forum, led by Professor Flagg Taylor, on several initiatives.

Hundreds of adults from upstate New York attend our events since almost all of them are open to the public. Dean Ball, co-leader of our AHI undergraduate program, has informed us that more than 100 Hamilton College undergraduates signed up in 2013 to participate in AHI activities, making it one of the largest undergraduate student organizations on the Hamilton College campus. The AHI also enjoys a productive relationship with Colgate University’s Center for Freedom & Western Civilization under the direction of Professor Robert Kraynak. An initiative, begun in 2013, has resulted in the shifting of our Rochester affiliate to the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology, and an important announcement about this exciting development will be made in the months ahead.

Christopher Dawson Society AHI Charter Fellow Douglas Ambrose and AHI Fellow Sheila O’Connor-Ambrose founded the Christopher Dawson Society for the Study of Faith and Reason to explore the relations between religious belief and intellectual inquiry within the Western intellectual tradition. Named after the first Chauncey Stillman Chair of Roman Catholic Studies at Harvard, the Dawson Society is devoting the 2013-2014 academic year to theories of just war in the Western tradition. Both Doug and Sheila spent 2012-2013 in Croatia, the result of a Fulbright Grant. On returning to the states, they began a reading cluster on just-war theory. The initial meeting attracted more than twenty students and adults. Professor Ambrose led the monthly discussions, and the AHI purchased reading materials for the group.

Fall programming culminated in a Leadership Appearance by Dr. Joseph Capizzi Luncheon in November at the AHI, featuring Professor Joseph Capizzi, Associate Professor of Moral Theology, Catholic University. He spoke “On the Christian Understanding of Just War Theory.”

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Edmund Burke Association AHI Charter Fellow Robert Paquette founded the Edmund Burke Association in 2006 to serve as the intellectual arm of the Hamilton College Republican Club. In its current incarnation, the Burke Association brings together students and informed citizens for intensive study of Western political thought and political theory, particularly as it applies to the founding of the United States and to the development of American ideals and institutions. During the spring semester, AHI Charter Fellow Robert Paquette, supervised nine intrepid undergraduates in a pioneering group independent study that required serious engagement with Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755). Montesquieu is, arguably, the foremost foreign individual influence on the meaning of republicanism in the political thinking that created the United States and framed and ratified the Constitution. Professor Schaub discusses Montesquieu at Students in the group independent study read cover-to- Leadership Dinner cover, the 700+ pages of the Cambridge translation of Spirit of the Laws; Thomas L. Pangle, Montesquieu’s Philosophy of Liberalism: A Commentary on the Spirit of the Laws (1973); and several essays by Montesquieu scholars whom the AHI invited as guest lecturers to the class: Paul Carrese, Professor of Political Science, Air Force Academy; Rebecca Kingston, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto; Barry Shain, Professor of Political Science, Colgate University; and Diana Schaub, Professor of Political Science, Loyola University, Maryland.

In addition, the Montesquieu Group featured lectures by AHI Charter Fellow James Bradfield on “Montesquieu’s Understanding of Money and Economics” and by Resident Fellow Chris Hill on “Montesquieu’s Understanding of Medieval History and the Feudal Law.” Eismeier Fellow Dr. David Frisk, a Ph.D. in political science from the Claremont Graduate University, participated in the course along with the students and served as a resource for them during the semester.

Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic two-volume Democracy in America (1835-40) can be seen as a sequel to Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws. During the fall semester, 2013, Paquette created a new course, “Tocqueville’s America,” which required a select group of fourteen students to read cover-to-cover not only Tocqueville’s two volume study, but Daniel Walker Howe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning volume on the Jacksonian Period, What Hath God Wrought (2007). The AHI supported the guest appearances of Christian Goodwillie, an authority on antebellum communal societies and Dr. David Frisk, who addressed the class on the idea of American exceptionalism in Tocqueville. The course ended with a discussion of Tocqueville’s warning about how democracies can threaten personal freedom by gradually slipping into soft despotisms.

Much has been written and discussed of late about the coming “clash of civilizations” between China and the West. Is this inevitable? Can this be averted? On November 1, the AHI sponsored a lecture by Stephen J. Goldberg, Associate Professor of Art History at Hamilton College, on “Cultural Legacies: Classical Thought, Visual Art, and Contemporary Relations between China and the West..” This lecture drew a standing-room AHI Guest lecturer only crowd to Hamilton College’s Kennedy Auditorium, and Professor Goldberg Christian Goodwillie received a standing ovation.

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Entrepreneurship Club Founded in 2011, the Entrepreneurship Club seeks to educate students and members of the community in the ideas of entrepreneurship essential to a free and prosperous society composed of responsible and accountable citizens. In 2013, both academics and businessmen participated in the club’s monthly lectures and “leadership luncheons.” On April 17, the AHI co-sponsored the appearance at Hamilton College of Announcing the appearance of Dr. Kenneth Minogue Kenneth Minogue, former President of the Mont Pelerin Society and one Announcing the appearance of Dr. Kenneth Minogue of the leading political theorists of his generation. He spoke to a large crowd of students and adults on “Is Social Justice Compatible with Freedom.” In preparation for Dr. Minogue’s coming, AHI Charter Fellow James Bradfield led a reading cluster on Minogue’s The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life (2010). Before his death in 2013, Dr. Minogue honored the AHI with a request to join its board of academic advisors.

In response to undergraduate interest in entrepreneurship and start-ups, the AHI sponsored a Leadership Luncheon on April 26, featuring Rodger Potocki, Utica-area entrepreneur, business consultant, and former Director of Planning and Development for the city of Rome New York who spoke to the AHI’s Entrepreneurship Club on how to start a business. AHI Undergraduate Fellows Sarah Larson, Brady Sprague, and Max Schnidman participated in evaluating online courses for the Koch Foundation.

Businessman Rodger Potocki

Publius Society During the spring, 2013, The AHI’s Publius Society continued its presidential election series. On February 18, the AHI sponsored two appearances by Professor Kevin Gutzman, Professor of History, Western Connecticut State University. He spoke on “The Election of 1800.” In the evening, the AHI held a Leadership Dinner where a group of twenty invited guests, students and professors, discussed Professor Gutzman’s recently published book James Madison and the Making of America (2012).

AHI Senior Fellow Ted Eismeier who retired from undergraduate teaching in 2012, returned to Clinton to speak to a full house at the AHI on “Calvin Coolidge and His Relevance to United States Political Life in the 21st Century.” Many of Ted’s former students turned out for the event. The AHI also used the occasion to introduce the AHI’s Theodore Eismeier Fellow, Dr. David Frisk, like Ted, a Ph. D. in political science. On April 11, Michael Kazin,

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Professor of History, Georgetown University, spoke on “The Election of 1896.” Kazin is the author of the acclaimed biography A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (2007).

Professor Michael Kazin speaks with AHI Undergraduate Fellows Student leaders of the Publius Society, Paul Carrier, Dean Ball, and Max Schnidman, held various student discussions at Hamilton College throughout the year on such topics as gun control and the Second Amendment, the war on drugs, immigration, student loan debt, and the NSA and privacy rights.

David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence The AHI featured Professor Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University, for its Sixth Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence. He spoke on September 17, 2013, at Texas A&M University. The AHI co-sponsored the event with the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Professor Whittington, an award-winning author of various works on American constitutional theory and development, federalism, judicial politics, and the presidency, lectured on “Is the Constitution a Cage?” which discussed the authority an inherited constitution has for the current generation.

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Inaugural Josiah Bunting III Veterans Day Lecture On November 11, Veterans Day, the AHI sponsored General Josiah Bunting III in giving a special lecture; open to the public, on leadership. He spoke on “American Leaders, War and Post-War, l940-l950: A Legacy of Lessons Ignored.” The AHI prefaced its introduction of General Bunting, a charter Josiah Bunting III member of the AHI’s board of directors, by announcing that it has established an annual Veterans Day Lecture on military history in his honor. The AHI hopes to locate the lecture in 2014 at Hampden-Sydney College, where General Bunting served as president from 1977 to 1987.

Josiah Bunting III

AHI’s Undergraduate Fellows: In 2013, AHI Undergraduate Fellows led student groups and discussions, took the initiative to organize their own events, presented papers at conferences, and engaged scholars and entrepreneurs who visited the AHI at various dinners and luncheons. Scores of undergraduates from Hamilton College and other institutions attended the AHI’s annual colloquium at the Turning Stone Resort. Many of our undergraduate fellows have received a wide variety of jobs and internships.

In November, the brothers of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity joined the AHI Undergraduate Fellows and the Mohawk Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross to sponsor their second annual blood drive at the AHI. Diane O’Donnell, Account Manager for the NY-Penn Blood Service Region, called the result “fantastic.” The total amount of blood collected exceeded last years’ total. A number of undergraduates nurtured by the AHI have won scholarships to attend prestigious law schools. In response to interest about careers in law, the AHI sponsored two performances by William A. Jacobson, Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic, Cornell University Law School. Professor Jacobson founded the influential Legal Insurrection blog and the more recent Second Annual Red Cross Blood Drive College Insurrection blog and is a nationally known expert in the field of securities arbitration. On April 1, he spoke on “Coming Out As a Conservative on Campus.” Professor Jacobson followed this talk by speaking at the AHI over dinner to an invited group of twenty students about careers in law and whether, in fact, a “law school bubble” now exists. The AHI prides itself on being part of an ever-growing network of organizations that seeks to provide undergraduate students with opportunities to enhance their knowledge and understanding of the Western tradition in general and of the American contribution to that tradition in particular. In both 2011 and 2012, the AHI sent two prize undergraduates to deliver papers at an annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference on the American Polity. In 2013, logistical difficulties prevented the conference from being held. The AHI is pleased to announce that it has entered into an arrangement with the Benjamin Franklin Forum at Skidmore College to co-sponsor the conference, beginning in 2014, on at least a semi-annual basis.

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Extending Our Reach During the Sixth Annual Carl B. Menges Colloquium in April, the AHI co-sponsored a special luncheon with representatives of the Michael Oakeshott Association, which launched a new book, A Companion to Michael Oakeshott (2013). Oakeshott was one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. Kenneth Minogue, one of Oakeshott’s most influential students, in one of his last public appearances before his death in 2013, attended the colloquium and addressed the attendants.

Special luncheon guests Dr. Leslie Marsh (left, front) with fellow members Michael Oakeshott Association (photo by Tom Loughlin, Jr.) The AHI co-sponsored with the Benjamin Franklin Forum at Skidmore College a student-led reading and discussion group. The students devoted the fall semester to reading Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, and as part of related programming, the AHI co-sponsored an appearance by John Alvis, Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Dallas. He spoke on “Moby Dick and America’s Dilemma.”

The AHI also co-sponsored an event on September 17, 2013 with Skidmore College’s Benjamin Franklin Forum. Jeremy Bailey, Associate Professor Department of Political Science, University of Houston, spoke to a standing-room only crowd on “Jefferson’s Revolutionary Professor Jeremy Bailey Constitution: Paradox and Potential.” Professor Jeremy Bailey In addition to the new initiatives with Utica College, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Skidmore College, the AHI contributed to the programming of the independent William F. Buckley Program at Yale, under the leadership of Lauren Noble. On October 18, AHI Director Howard Morgan and his son Reed, a Yale undergraduate, attended a gala event organized by the Buckley program on “The Future of Conservatism.” In September 2014, the AHI will partner with the Daniel Webster Center at Dartmouth in organizing a major conference on AHI Partnered with Clinton Chamber of Commerce to Host “Tyranny and Totalitarianism: Past, Present, and Auto Show (Photo by Marc Goldberg) Future.”

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The AHI regards the United States Chamber of Commerce as a kindred-spirit organization. In 2013, AHI President Richard Erlanger and Ferris Betrus, Vice-President of the Clinton, New York, Chamber of Commerce, agreed to a lease that will locate the Clinton Chamber in AHI headquarters for the next three years. It is hoped that this partnership will allow the AHI to work with the Clinton Chamber and other area chambers of commerce in programming designed to promote economic growth and prosperity in the area.

AHI Undergraduate Fellows Build A Track Record of Success AHI Undergraduate Fellows—students whom the AHI has nurtured over a period of years— continue to dazzle. A few examples: Elizabeth Farrington has recently graduated from Notre Dame Law School, where she received a scholarship; Tim Minella is completing a Ph.D. in the history of science as a Presidential Scholar at the University of South Carolina and in 2013 won the AHI’s annual Bakwin Fellowship, which allowed him to advance work on his dissertation; Will Eagan is working with scholarship on an advanced degree in statistics at Purdue University; Dean Ball (l) and Sarah Scalet (r) recieved internships Kayla Safran, a former co-leader of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows Program, is working as Multichannel Media Coordinator at SSCG Media Group. Dean Ball was one of several undergraduates from across the country to be awarded a prestigious internship at the Manhattan Institute; Marta Johnson landed a job as a young executive with a compensation consulting firm; Sarah Larson and Sarah Scalet received internships to work in Washington D.C. with the American Council of Trustees and Alumni; Mark Garcia has completed coursework at Vanderbilt Law School; Thomas Cheeseman won the prestigious Wade Scholarship to attend Vanderbilt Law School.

Hannah Carlisle has accepted a position upon graduation in 2014 with Deloitte LLP, an internationally recognized firm in the areas of auditing, finance, and tax consulting. Former AHI Undergraduate Fellow Amy L. Goldstein currently serves in Strategy & Operations for Deloitte. Anthony Balbo, who led the AHI’s Entrepreneurship Club for several years, now works in the Finance and Accounting division Ferrari North America. Max Schnidman, co-leader of the AHI’s Publius Society, was awarded Phi Beta Kappa in 2013. During the summer of 2013 Schnid- man interned for Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc., a leading market research and consulting firm. Paul Carrier, currently co-leader of the AHI’s Undergraduate Fellows Pro- gram, will graduate in 2014 into a career in banking.

On September 17, Constitution Day, the AHI awards the Carl B. Menges Prizes to those undergraduates who have excelled in an assignment related to the colloquium. Hamilton College undergraduates Maggie Joyce, Sarah Larson, and Jack Boyle were this Carl B. Menges Award recipients with (front) AHI Fellows

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year’s winners. Their papers derived from an assignment that asked them to analyze whether the United States Civil War qualified as a civilizational struggle according to arguments presented in the work of Samuel Huntington, most notably The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996).

The AHI will continue efforts to expand its programming related to job opportunities in areas that accord with the mission of the AHI. One of its most successful events in that regard occurred on November 8 when Paul Garaffo, a former student of Professor Ambrose and Paquette, currently serving as an analyst with the Defense Department’s Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington DC, addressed a standing-room only crowd at Hamilton College on job opportunities in the fields of intelligence and security.

Our Annual Colloquium In April 2013 at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona, NY, the AHI held the Sixth Annual Carl B. Menges Colloquium, “What Is a Civilizational Struggle: The Work of Samuel Huntington.” Dr. James Kurth, Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, one of Samuel Huntington’s former students at Harvard University, keynoted the event to 130 invited guests on Thursday evening, April 18. He spoke on “The Clash of Civilizations in the 21st Century: The Work of Samuel Huntington and the Realities of Today” Colgate University’s Center for Freedom & Western Civilization, directed by AHI Senior Fellow Robert Kraynak, co-sponsored the event. In April 2014 at the Turning Stone Resort, the AHI will hold the SEenth Annual Carl B. Meges Colloquium on “The West and Ware: Strategic Challenges Past, Present, and Future.” the AHI will again co-sponsor the event with Colgate University’s Center for Freedom & Western Civilization. Dr. Michael D. Swaine, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will keynote. Colloquium keynote speacker Dr. James Kurth Continuing Education As part of its 2013-14 programming designed for continuing education and civic outreach Resident Fellow, Christopher Hill, completed in the spring, 2013, a course on “Heretics, Witches, and the Roots of Tolerance.” In the course, Dr. Hill traced the development of tolerance in the Western tradition from the development of orthodoxy and the suppression of dissent in the ancient world, to the growth of heresy in the Middle Ages, to the Witch Hunts of Early Modern Europe, to the religious wars that opened the door to the modern understanding of toleration. The course combined history, religion, economics and law. In the fall, 2013, Resident Fellow David Frisk, a prize- winning journalist and Ph.D. in political science from the Claremont Graduate University, had more than thirty adults register for his course centered on Charles Murray’s much-discussed book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (2012).

Annual Summer Conference In June, the AHI held its Fifth Annual Summer Conference with the Department of Political Science, Baylor University. Diana Schaub, Professor of Political Science, Loyola University of Maryland and Professor Paul Seaton, Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Baltimore, Maryland, served as discussion leaders. 2013 Annual Summer Conference participants The conference explored the readings in So Proudly We Hail (2011), an acclaimed anthology designed to explore the conferences main topic of what is the American soul. AHI

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Senior Fellows David and Mary Nichols, both from the Department of Political Science, Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, organized the conference.

2013 Annual Summer Conference participants

Recent Grants and Gifts

➢ In September 2013, the AHI received the final installment of a $150,000 grant from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation, the largest institutional grant in the AHI’s brief history, to support three years of programming.

➢ In 2012, the AHI announced the completion of a $500,000 commitment to further the AHI’s mission to promote excellence in scholarship through the study of freedom, democracy, and capitalism. We are pleased to announce that the donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, has renewed his commitment to the AHI.

➢ Thomas K. Armstrong, Sr., President of the Armstrong Foundation in Fort Worth, Texas, passed away in September, 2013. The Armstrong Foundation has provided support on an annual basis for more than five years and renewed its commitment with a donation in 2013.

➢ In 2013 the AHI also received continuing support from the Charles Koch Foundation.

➢ In 2013 the AHI was gifted with books and memorabilia from the estate of the late Eugene D. Genovese, one of the United States most influential historians. Dr. Genovese specialized in the history of slavery and the Old South, and his gift to the AHI included his entire collection of books in southern history. AHI Directors Robert Hamill and Howard Morgan led a successful fundraising drive to raise more than $60,000 for renova tions to the AHI headquarters. The money is being used to create two treasure rooms for the storage of artifacts, including not only gifts from the Genovese estate, but from the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, of which Mr. Hamill and Mr. Morgan are alumni members of the Hamilton chapter.

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Recognition of Our Fellows: AHI Charter Fellow Robert Paquette: In 2013, Paquette traveled to Santa Barbara, California, as an invited guest of Liberty Fund to participate in a special colloquium designed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation.

SeeThruEdu, an educational initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, continues to employ him as an author of monthly opinion pieces. Paquette was also appointed to a seat on the New York Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Resident Fellow, Christopher Hill: In 2013, Hill Charter Fellow Bob Paquette completed his fellowship at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis for the coming academic year. He will be teaching a course on “Law and Liberty” at Utica College and has taken a lead role in organizing the Seventh Annual Carl B. Menges Colloquium on “The West and War: Strategic Challenges Past, Present, and Future.” Charter Fellow Bob Paquette

Charter Fellow Professor Douglas Ambrose: Ambrose completed a Fulbright Grant to teach American history and American studies in Croatia and in the fall returned to classroom teaching at Hamilton College. He leads the AHI’s Christopher Dawson Society.

Resident Fellow Dr. David Frisk : As the 2013 Theodore J. Eismeier Fellow, he contributed in many ways to the AHI’s success. He provided guest lectures, mentored AHI’s undergraduate fellows, advised the Publius Society, and contributed greatly to the intellectual life generally of the AHI. Indeed, the AHI considered his contributions so valuable that he was asked to return to the AHI for 2013-14 as a resident fellow. The author of Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement (2012), Dr. Frisk is using his time at the AHI to complete a number of articles on political subjects and a second book that will explore the shared principles of traditionalist and libertarian conservatism. In the spring 2014, he will be teaching a continuing education class at the AHI on “What Is Conservatism.”

Senior Fellow: Dr. Joseph Fornieri, Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an acclaimed Lincoln scholar, joined the AHI as a senior fellow in 2013. Dr. Fornieri will lead the AHI affiliate to be inaugurated in 2014 at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Business Operations and Allocation of Funding Financial Metrics The AHI is moving forward carefully and deliberately to fund a growing list of programmatic initiatives and to extend its reach to other institutions. Our financial 18% goal is to continually grow our constituencies, Programs program offerings, and donor bases while keeping our non programming (overhead) expenses under tight control. A modest operating profit each year Support Services is desirable and sustains our long term financial

stability. *Support service include communications & accounting services

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During 2013, 82% of our total expenses directly impact our educational activities through programming events or the operation of our headquarters in Clinton to present them. Our overhead consists primarily of headquarters building operation and maintenance, as well as accounting and communications support services which are outsourced.

Fiscal Year 2013

Abbreviated Statement of Income (Unaudited) Fiscal Year 2013 Fiscal Year 2012

Total Donations and Other Income $338,200 $363,600

Total Expense $321,400 $330,100

Operating Income $17,400 $33,500

Abbreviated Balance Sheet at 12-31-2013

Current Assets $171,400 Current Liabilities $7,700

Fixed Assets $55,500 Long Term Liabilities 0

Other Assets $5,600 Equity $224,800

Total Assets $232,500 Total Liabilities and Equity $232,500

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Help Us Support Our Mission Attempts to expand our message cannot succeed without your continued support. We hope you’ll consider a financial contribution of $250, $150, $50 or more to further our mission to create programs that provide for the innovative teaching of civic and economic knowledge in order to promote a genuine free marketplace of ideas.

If you would like to help, please contact us at www.theahi.org. We operate on a cooperative, voluntary basis, and frequently draw on the professional skills of alumni and, friends, and supporters. The AHI is a 501©(3) tax-exempt educational corporation incorporated under the authority of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York Education Department. The AHI’s 990 is public and available upon request.

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AHI Fellows Charter Fellows Douglas Ambrose Ambrose is professor of history at Hamilton College, where he has taught since 1990. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the State University of New York at Binghamton. His teaching and research interests include early America, the Old South, and American religious history. His publications include Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South (LSU 1996) and The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America’s Most Elusive Founding Father (NYU 2006), a volume he co-edited with Hamilton colleague Robert W. T. Martin. He has also written numerous articles, book reviews and encyclopedia entries about Southern slavery and Southern intellectual life. Ambrose is a recipient of Hamilton College’s Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award.

James Bradfield Bradfield is the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics at Hamilton College. He teaches courses in microeconomics and in the theory of financial markets. With Robert Paquette, he teaches a course on the role of property, both as a concept and as an institution, in the rise of the modern state. To an important extent, the AHI is an outgrowth of that course. Professor Bradfield has written (with Jeffrey Baldani and Robert Turner) Mathematical Economics, now published in a second edition (2005) by Thomson- Southwestern Learning, and Introduction to the Economics of Financial Markets (Oxford University Press, 2007). Known for years as an excellent teacher and academic advisor, he was awarded a prize for excellence in teaching in 2006 by the Hamilton Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. In 2007, the Student Assembly of Hamilton College awarded him the Sidney Wertimer, Jr., prize for excellence in teaching. He is now working on a book that will explain for a lay audience what academic economists have learned about how, and how well, financial markets promote mutually beneficial exchanges.

Robert L. Paquette Paquette received his B. A. cum laude in 1973 from Bowling Green State University; he received his Ph. D. with honors in 1982 from the University of Rochester. He has published dozens of books and articles on the history of slavery. His Sugar Is Made with Blood (Wesleyan University Press, 1988) won the Elsa Goveia Prize, given every three years by the Association of Caribbean Historians for the best book in Caribbean history. More recently, his essay “Of Facts and Fables: New Light on the Denmark Vesey Affair” (co-authored with Douglas Egerton) won the Malcolm C. Clark Award, given by the South Carolina Historical Society. He has co-edited (with Stanley Engerman) The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion (University Press of Florida, 1996); (with Louis A. Ferleger) Slavery, Secession, and Southern History (University Press of Virginia, 2000); (with Stanley Engerman and Seymour Drescher) Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2001); (with Mark M. Smith) The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2010); with Rebecca J. Fox, “Unbought Grace”: An Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Reade’’ (University of South Carolina Press, 2011); He is currently working on A Grand Carnage (Yale University Press), a study of the largest slave insurrection in United States history and, with Douglas Egerton, Court of Death: A Documentary History of the Denmark Vesey Affair (University Press of Florida). In 2005, the University of Rochester invited him to return to his alma mater to receive the Mary Young Award for distinguished achievement. A recipient of grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, the National Endowment of the Humanities, as well as for the AHI from VERITAS, Thomas W. Smith Foundation, Watson-Brown Foundation, Armstrong Foundation, Apgar Foundation, Jack Miller Center, and Charles G. Koch Foundation. In 2007, Paquette co-founded the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. In 2006-2008, he served on the Scholars Council of the Jack Miller Center. In 2008 he was appointed to the advisory board of the Cobb Forum on Southern Jurisprudence and Intellectual Thought of the Watson-Brown Foundation. That same year President George

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W. Bush forwarded Paquette’s nomination to the Senate for a seat on the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2012, the American Freedom Alliance awarded him the Heroes of Conscience Award. He has taught at Hamilton College for thirty years. He held the Publius Virgilius Rogers Chair in American History for seventeen years until January 2011, when he resigned the title in protest. He lives on the edge of campus with his wife Zoya and their two children.

Senior Fellows H. Lee Cheek Dr. H. Lee Cheek, Jr., is Professor of Political Science and Religion at the University of North Georgia. He received his bachelor’s degree from Western Carolina University, his M.Div. from Duke University, his M.P.A. from Western Carolina University, and his Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America. He previously served as Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Gainesville State College (University of North Georgia), as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Athens State University in Alabama, and as Vice-President for College Advancement and Professor of Political Science at Brewton-Parker College in Mt. Vernon, Georgia. Dr. Cheek taught at Brewton-Parker College from 1997-2000, and from 2005-2009. In 2000, 2006, and 2007, the student body of Brewton-Parker College selected Cheek as Professor of the Year; and, in 2008, the Jordon Excellence in Teaching was bestowed upon him by the College’s faculty and administration. From 2000 to 2005, Dr. Cheek served as Associate Professor of Political Science at Lee University. In 2002, Dr. Cheek was given Lee University’s Excellence in Scholarship award; and in 2004, he received Lee University’s Excellence in Advising award. In 2008, Western Carolina University presented Dr. Cheek with the University’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic and Professional Achievement.

He has also been a congressional aide and a political consultant. Dr. Cheek’s books include Political Philosophy and Cultural Renewal (Transaction/Rutgers, 2001, with Kathy B. Cheek); Calhoun and Popular Rule, published by the University of Missouri Press (2001; paper edition, 2004); Calhoun: Selected Speeches and Writings (Regnery, 2003); Order and Legitimacy (Transaction/Rutgers, 2004); an edition of Calhoun’s A Disquisition on Government (St. Augustine’s, 2007); a critical edition of W. H. Mallock’s The Limits of Pure Democracy (Transaction/Rutgers, 2007); a monograph on Wesleyan theology (Wesley Studies Society, 2010; reprinted, 2012); and an edition of the classic study, A Theory of Public Opinion (Transaction/Rutgers, 2011). He has also published dozens of scholarly articles in academic publications, and is a regular commentator on American politics and religion. Dr. Cheek’s current research includes completing an intellectual biography of Francis Graham Wilson (I.S.I. Books), a study of the American Founding (Continuum Books), and a book on Patrick Henry’s constitutionalism and political theory. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Humanitas, The Political Science Reviewer, Anamnesis, The University Bookman, and as a Fellow of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters (elected). Cheek has been a Fellow of the Wilbur Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Center for Judicial Studies, and the Center for International Media Studies. Dr. Cheek lives in Vidalia, Georgia, with his wife, Kathy B. Cheek, a teacher of ballet and yoga, and their cats, Sophie and Mr. Macavity.

Theodore J. Eismeier Eismeier is Professor of Government at Hamilton College, where he has taught since 1978. He graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. with Distinction from Yale University. A recipient of the Class of 1962 Outstanding Teacher Award, he teaches courses in American political institutions and public policy and regularly directs the Hamilton College Semester in Washington Program. He is the editor with Douglas W. Rae of Public Policy and Public Choice (Sage, 1979). He is the author, with Philip H. Pollock, of Business, Money, and the Rise of Corporate PACs in American Politics (Quorum Books, 1988), and has published widely in professional journals on the subject of campaign finance. He is currently working on a project on the Hudson River and the Politics of Place. He resides in Clinton and Poughkeepsie with his wife Betsy.

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Joseph R. Fornieri Fornieri is Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York, where he teaches American politics, political philosophy, and constitutional rights and liberties. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Faith (2005), an acclaimed scholarly work that explores Lincoln’s religion and politics. He is also the author or editor of three other books on Abraham Lincoln’s political thought and statesmanship: The Language of Liberty: The Political Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (2003; revised ed. 2009); (with Kenneth L. Deutsch) Lincoln’s American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives (2005); and (with Sara V. Gabbard) Lincoln’s America, 1809-1865 (2008). His Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman will be published in the spring, 2014. In addition, Fornieri has co-edited (with Kenneth L. Deutsch) An Invitation to Political Thought (2009), an introductory text to the classic political thinkers of the Western tradition from Plato to Nietzsche.

Fornieri has won several teaching awards at RIT, including the Provost’s Award for outstanding teaching for junior faculty in 2002 and the Eisenhart Award for outstanding teaching for tenured faculty. He was a Fulbright Lecturer, 2008-2009 in Prague, Czech Republic where he taught American political thought and First Amendment Law at Charles University. He lives in Fairport New York with his wife Pam, his two daughters Bella and Natalie, and his two stepchildren J.J. and Helena. On the side, he plays guitar in a blues band.

Ann Hartle Hartle is professor of philosophy at Emory University where she has taught since 1984. She has her doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research is focused on the history of philosophy, especially early modern philosophy, and political philosophy. She is the author of four books: The Modern Self in Rousseau’s “Confessions”: A Reply to St. Augustine (Notre Dame, 1983), Death and the Disinterested Spectator: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Philosophy (SUNY Press, 1986), Self-Knowledge in the Age of Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996), and Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher (Cambridge University Press, 2003). With Sheila O’Connor Ambrose, she co-edited volume 4 of History and Women, Culture, and Faith: Collected Papers of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Currently she is working on a second book on Montaigne, Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy. She and her husband are members of St. Joseph’s Maronite Catholic Church in Atlanta.

Pamela K. Jensen Jensen is Professor of Political Science at Kenyon College, where she has been teaching since 1979. She received her A.B. degree from Kent State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches courses in modern political philosophy, the introduction to politics, politics and literature, and African-American political thought. Her scholarly interests include the philosophy of Montesquieu and Rousseau, Shakespeare, and the writings of African -American thinkers on liberal democracy. She has published essays in several journals and books on these subjects. She is contributing editor of Finding a New Feminism: Rethinking the Woman Question for Liberal Democracy. She was named Harry Clor Professor of Political Science for a five year term, and received the Trustees’ Senior Faculty teaching award at Kenyon in 1998 and the Senior Cup, given by Kenyon’s senior class, in 2000. She also served a two-year term on the national council of the American Political Science Association and a term as president of the Ohio Association of Scholars. She was project director for the We the People Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, awarded to Kenyon College in 2007 to establish the Center for the Study of American Democracy. She has a daughter, Rebecca, and three grandchildren, Col, Lily, and Quinn. She lives in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Robert P. Kraynak Kraynak is Professor of Political Science at Colgate University, Department Chairman, and Director of The Center for Freedom and Western Civilization. He came to Colgate in 1978 from Harvard University, where he received his Ph. D. in government. He teaches courses in the fields of political philosophy and

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general education, including courses on American political thought. He received the Colgate Alumni Corporation’s “Distinguished Teaching Award” in 2006. His published books are History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes (Cornell University Press, 1990), Christian Faith and Modern Democracy (Notre Dame University Press, 2001), and In Defense of Human Dignity, edited with Glenn Tinder (Notre Dame University Press, 2003). He is a contributing author to Human Dignity and Bioethics, published by the President’s Council on Bioethics. Kraynak served in the U. S, Army Reserves, is the faculty advisor to the College Republicans at Colgate, and is an active member of St. Mary’s Church in the village of Hamilton, N.Y., where he lives with his wife, Sandra, and their four children.

Daniel J. Mahoney Mahoney is Augustine Professor of Distinguished Scholarship and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 1986. He received his Ph.D. from Catholic University in February 1989. His areas of scholarly expertise include statesmanship, religion and politics, French politics and political philosophy, and antitotalitarian thought. His books include The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron (1992, 1998 for the French edition), De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy (1996, 2000), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent From Ideology (2001, 2008 for the augmented French edition) and Bertrand de Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of Modernity (2005). He has also edited or co-edited many books including, most notably, The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005 (2006). Mahoney’s essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in a wide range of public and scholarly journals in the United States and abroad. His writings have also appeared in French, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Norwegian, Czech, and Russian translation. His latest book, The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against Its Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends, was published by ISI books in 2011. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Prix Raymond Aron, an award named after the distinguished French political thinker, who renewed Tocqueville’s conservative-minded liberalism and vigorously opposed totalitarianism in all its forms. Mahoney lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Claudia Nelson Nelson earned her A.B. in history from Bryn Mawr College in 1980 and her Ph.D. in English from Indiana University in 1989. She is presently Professor of English and Cornerstone Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University, where she has been a member of the faculty since 2003 and where for four years she directed the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her research focuses on Victorian literature and childhood/ family studies. In addition to several edited or coedited volumes, her publications include Boys Will Be Girls: The Feminine Ethic and British Children’s Fiction, 1857-1917 (Rutgers University Press, 1991); Invisible Men: Fatherhood in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1910 (University of Georgia Press, 1995); Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption in America, 1850-1910 (supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s award for the best scholarly book); Family Ties in Victorian England, and Precocious Children and Childish Adults: Age Inversion in Victorian Literature, forthcoming, 2012 from Johns Hopkins University Press.

David Nichols Nichols is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. Before coming to Baylor, he was the Director of the Honors Program at Montclair State University, and has taught at Fordham University, Claremont McKenna College, and served as the Olin Senior Scholar at the University of Virginia. Nichols has also worked as a Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Myth of the Modern Presidency (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994) (Arabic translation published 2002); “Constitutional Controversy and Presidential Election: Bush v. Gore” in The Constitutional Presidency, Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis, eds. (John Hopkins Press, 2009); and Readings in American Government (ed. with Mary Nichols) (Kendall/Hunt, 8th ed., 2010). In addition to his work on the presidency, Nichols writes on topics in American political thought, constitutional law, the American

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presidency, political parties and politics, literature and film. He and his wife Mary reside in Waco Texas, and have two sons, Keith and John.

Mary Nichols Nichols is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Baylor University. Before coming to Baylor in 2004, she taught in the political science department at Fordham University, in the Honors program at the University of Delaware, and as Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University. She teaches courses in the history of political philosophy, politics, and literature, and politics and film. Her books include Socrates and the Political Community: An Ancient Debate (SUNY Press, 1987); Citizens and Statesmen: A Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992). Her book, Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato’s Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis (Cambridge University Press, 2009). She and David Nichols co-edit Readings in American Government (Kendall/Hunt, 8th ed., 2010). She serves on the editorial boards of the Review of Politics and Perspectives on Political Science. She is also director of the project, “Contemporary Media and the Great Books: A New Approach to the Classics,” a curriculum package that studies seminal texts in Western thought in conjunction with classical and contemporary American films. She and her husband David have two sons, Keith and John.

Michael Rizzo Rizzo is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. He majored in economics at Amherst College, where he was graduated magna cum laude in 1996. After graduation he worked for several years as an investment banker at Putnam, Lovell and Thornton (PLT) in New York City. He received graduate degrees in economics at Cornell University, an M. A. in 2002 and Ph.D. in 2004. Professor Rizzo’s fields of specialization include the economics of education, labor economics, applied econometrics, and environmental economics. He also serves as a faculty research associate with the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute and as a consultant with Scannell & Kurz, Inc., an enrollment management firm based in Rochester, NY.

Professor Rizzo is working on two books: one on economic aphorisms and another on the economic, logical, and moral inconsistencies inherent in some of our most deeply held beliefs. His also specializes in teaching basic economics to non-academic audiences. He has published articles on economics in a wide variety of newspapers and has appeared on Fox News and many other national media outlets. Professor Rizzo maintains a blog, “The Unbroken Window,” designed as an educational resource to elevate public literacy in economics. Professor Rizzo lives with his wife Rachel, their daughter Amelia and son Isaac, and their two Boston Terriers in Bushnell’s Basin, NY.

Fellows Christopher Hill Chris Hill earned his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and has advanced degrees in both medieval and modern European history. He has taught at the University of Texas and Hamilton College, where he received the Sidney Wertimer Award for excellence in teaching in 2010. A legal historian by training, he is particularly interested in the relationship between religion and law during the high Middle Ages and the impact that relationship had on the idea of individual liberty in the developing English common law. An ardent critic of political orthodoxy in academe, he wrote while a graduate student a novel satirizing political correctness on a fictional college campus. The book, Virtual Morality, won the Editors’ Book Award from Pushcart Press in the year 2000. His reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal. He is currently researching the history of the concept of liberty as a Bakwin Fellow at the AHI. He and his wife, Stephanie, live with their three children in Waterville, NY.

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Sheila O’Connor-Ambrose Sheila O’Connor-Ambrose earned a Ph.D. in women’s studies from Emory University in 2007, with the support of an H.B. Earhart Fellowship Grant (2005-06), an Andrew J. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (1996-97), and an Emory University Dean’s Teaching Fellowship (1995-96). She wrote her dissertation– which was directed by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese–on marriage and the quest for the dedicated life in the writings of the novelist Gail Godwin. O’Connor-Ambrose edited and introduced Fox-Genovese’s Marriage: The Dream That Refuses to Die (published posthumously by ISI Books, 2008), and she coedited Explorations and Commitments: Religion, Faith, and Culture, Volume IV of History and Women, Culture and Faith: Selected Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming 2012). The author of several articles, O’Connor-Ambrose is a member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, the World Women’s Alliance for Life and Family (Rome, Italy), and the Syracuse Diocesan Commission on the Status of Women in Society, and was honored by the Mohawk Valley Chapter of New York State Women, Inc. as a “Woman of Vision” in 2011. She and Douglas Ambrose, Professor of History at Hamilton College, co-direct the Christopher Dawson Society for the Study of Faith and Reason. They live with their three children, Antonia, Augusta, and Dominic, in Utica, NY.

Resident Fellow David Frisk David Frisk received his Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University in 2009 with specialties in American politics and political philosophy. He is also a graduate of Reed College with a degree in history. His publications include If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement (ISI Books, 2012), a comprehensive biography of a significant conservative leader that was favorably reviewed in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and several other major outlets. Frisk taught American government at Concordia University in California and worked at the Claremont Institute. An alumnus of the National Journalism Center and a former award-winning newspaper reporter, he has published numerous opinion articles in the Jefferson Policy Journal of the Thomas Jefferson Institute in Virginia as well as essays for the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal California and for the Claremont Review of Books. He is one of several contributors to the 2013 edition of The Political Science Reviewer, which provides a range of scholarly commentaries on Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right. During the spring semester of 2013, Frisk was awarded the AHI’s Theodore J. Eismeier Fellowship. At the AHI, Dr. Frisk will continue work on a book that explores the shared principles of traditionalist and libertarian conservatism. He is organizing and will contribute to a book of scholarly essays tentatively titled The Goldwater Campaign 50 Years Later: New Perspectives. He is also preparing an essay on the Nixon presidency for a volume on American statesmanship to be co-edited by AHI Senior Fellow Joseph Fornieri of the Rochester Institute of Technology and Kenneth Deutsch of the State University of New York at Geneseo.

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Board of Academic Advisors Kenneth Minogue (1930-2013) The AHI would like to honor Academic Advisor Kenneth Minogue who passed away on June 28. Kenneth Minogue was one of the leading political thinkers of his generation , Emeritus Professor of Political Science , Honorary Fellow at the London School of Economics and former president of the Mont Pelerin Society The AHI sponsored Professor Minogue in April of 2013 at two events: at Hamilton College to speak on “Is Social Justice Compatible with Freedom” and at the Turning Stone Resort to participate as a conferee in the Sixth Annual Carl B. Menges Colloquium “What Is a Civilizational Struggle? The Work of Samuel Huntington.” The AHI was deeply honored by his subsequent request to join our board of academic advisors. Minogue’s books include The Liberal Mind (1963), Nationalism (1967), The Concept of a University (1973), Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology (1985), Politics: A Very Short Introduction (1995), and, most recently, The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life (2010). He also served for more than twenty years on the board of the Centre for Policy Studies and as chairman of the Bruges Group (1991-1993).

Board of Academic Advisors Hadley Arkes, Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions, Amherst College Richard Brookhiser, Independent Scholar Peter Coclanis, Albert R. Newsome Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Candace de Russy, Independent scholar Seymour Drescher, University Professor, University of Pittsburgh Marc Elias, Firmwide Chair, Perkins Coie law firm, Washington, D.C. Stanley Engerman, John Munro Professor of Economics, University of Rochester Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Government Law Center, Albany Law School Eugene D. Genovese (1930-2012) Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941-2007) Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University Maurice Isserman, Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, Hamilton College Roger Kimball, Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books Daniel Littlefield, Carolina Professor of History, University of South Carolina Harvey Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, Harvard University Kenneth Minogue (1930-2013) Thomas Pangle, Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Texas, Austin

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Paul Rahe, Professor of History, Hillsdale College Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law & Justice Colleen Sheehan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Villanova University. Mark Smith, Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina John Stauffer, Professor of English, American Literature, and Language, Harvard University Richard K. Vedder, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics and Faculty Associate, Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University Michael P. Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Board of Directors Stephen Balch: Founder and president of the National Association of Scholars, America’s largest and most active membership organization of scholars committed to higher education reform. J. Hunter Brown: Founder and principal of Watson Wilkins & Brown, LLC, an investment management and business consulting firm and founding President of the AHI. Josiah Bunting III, Lt. Gen. (Ret.): An American educator. He has been a military officer, college president, and an author and speaker on education and Western culture. Harlan Calkins: Chairman and CEO of Rochester Midland Corporation Richard A. Erlanger: Currently President of the AHI, he as spent his entire career advising, managing, and investing in venture and private equity portfolio companies as an individual and as a member of investment groups. Jane Fraser: President of the Stuttering Foundation of America. An experienced editor, translator, and interpreter. Robert B. Hamill: Managing Director at Jefferies & Company, Inc., a global securities and investment banking group. Carl Menges: Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wood, Struthers & Winthrop Management Corp. he has a long-standing interest in history and the founding of the United States and is a founding board member of the AHI. Howard D. Morgan: Senior Managing Director of Castle Harlan. Anne D. Neal: President of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a non-profit, nonpartisan, educational organization dedicated to academic freedom, excellence, and accountability in higher education. James Schoff: Former Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer as well as Special Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of Developers Diversified Realty Corporation (DDR). He also serves as a Director of Associated Estates Corporation and as a Director of Quasar Energy Group.

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