Brenna Wade pointed out a coin on the computer screen. It looked unremarkable to the untrained eye. The ‘Satirical Napoleon,’ part of the extensive Alwin C. Carus coin collection, is actually an elaborate lampoon, a tiny and tangible holdover from the culture that produced it. “The helmet is Prussian,” Wade said, explaining that Napoleon III...
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April 17, 2014July 12, 2022News
New English professor hired
Serial interviews. Business lunches. The drudgery of shaking hands, remembering names, making long-distance phone calls. Single-use shampoo bottles and scratchy hotel towels. This is what Hillsdale College subjects its professorial candidates to before making a hiring decision. It’s what Kelly Franklin called home about. “It was wonderful,” Franklin said. “It was fun. It was also...
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April 10, 2014July 12, 2022News
Teaching students survival 101
When the polar vortex struck Hillsdale College, nine-foot snow banks loomed over the campus quad. Sinister patches of black ice stretched across the sidewalk. The days were nasty, brutish, and short. Perfect weather for camping. Joe Kellam, the instructor for next semester’s wilderness survival class, set up camp with friends when few Hillsdale students dared...
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March 13, 2014July 12, 2022City News
Humans of Hillsdale: Richard Wunsch
Time seems to stop in Volume One Books, located in downtown Hillsdale. It feels as though everything were held suspended, as though – just maybe – this bookstore were a world unto itself; as though Lady History herself could walk in and feel perfectly at home. Cross the threshold. The change is palpable, the environment...
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March 6, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Through a foreign lens: Slavic culture in cinema
Professor of Theatre James Brandon and Visiting Assistant Professor of German Stephen Naumann partnered this semester to present a series of four Russian and Polish films. “We both enjoy film,” Naumann said. “Dr. Brandon knows Russian film. I know Polish film.” The professors’ respective interests in Russian and Polish film dovetail neatly. Both countries are...