Located in the foothills of Wyoming's spectacular wind river range, Wyoming Catholic College,

an accredited four-year Great Books Institution is built on the ancient Western tradition of the liberal arts and the freedom of the American West.

The college offers its students an immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition,

the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church. Students experience the illumination of imagination and intellect through the great books and traditional disciplines,

literature and philosophy, mathematics and theology, science and Latin, and an outdoor program second to none.

The college celebrated an in-person

graduation with its seniors last year and welcomed its largest freshman class ever this year.

Learn more about the college's unique space in the world of American higher education at

Wyoming Catholic.edu. We have with us today Robert Paquette. He is former professor of history at Hamilton College.

He's the founder and director of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the study of Western civilization

in Clinton, New York, author of Sugar is Made with Blood, an editor of many volumes, including

the Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas. Welcome,

Professor Paquette. Nice to be here. Thank you, Mark. How did the Hamilton Institute begin?

A very interesting story. In a sense, it began with a conversation that I had with a member of

Hamilton's Board of Trustees by the name of Carl Manges, who was a Wall

Street guy, but very much interested in history. And a conversation took place in the early

2000s about how Hamilton College, which was named of Alexander Hamilton, should do more

in recognition of its prestigious namesake.

And so we held a conference out of which came a volume,

the many faces of Alexander Hamilton.

And as we were considering what more to do,

a couple of scandals rocked Hamilton College, basically back to back.

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