Hillsdale College is celebrating 10 years of free online courses. The college launched the first of many free online courses, Introduction to the Constitution, in 2011. Ten years later, more than 30 online courses are available with 2.63 million participants — a number the college hopes to double in the next ten years, according to...
Year: 2021
The Gifted Garden is city’s latest hub for local craftsmanship
The secret garden once behind Jilly Beans is back, with the addition of a circular sculpted-cement tree trunk with a wrap-around bench in the center. This is the handiwork of The Gifted Garden owner Megan Lashaway. The Gifted Garden is a local shop that sells the work of local artisans — everything from paintings and...
Military history professor speaks on World War II
He delivered the lecture on Friday about his recent book “Faustian Bargain: the Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War” hosted by the history department. “My book is the story of a 20-year-pact between Germany and the U.S.S.R and how this partnership led the world back to war, a war even more...
Kyle Mann Q&A
Kyle Mann is the editor in chief of the Babylon Bee. This interview includes questions submitted by Hillsdale students, and has been edited for length and clarity by Tracy Wilson. What’s the best joke you’ve ever told? I wrote the one during the pandemic about celebrities spelling out ‘We’re all in this together’ with their...
Hillsdale’s asylum: ‘Far from forgotten’
Before things like regularly attending therapy and treating mental illness with appropriate medication were accessible and normalized, those who struggled with mental health were at the bottom of the totem pole. The ethics surrounding mental health institutions and the treatment of their patients are still a slippery slope, but the progress that has been made...



