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Some professors enjoy unwinding after work by watching crime shows on television. When Lecturer in Sociology Shannon Finn leaves campus, she lives them. Finn, a 2010 graduate of Hillsdale College, works in the Detroit court system, advising attorneys using evidence-based sentencing. She said she essentially uses “science and research to argue for more tactful sentencing for convicted criminals in an...

Japanese anime and traveling to Narnia seldom show up on college midterms. But this fall, students will study these subjects in honors seminars. “Honors seminars are there to provide a way to learn what we don’t have time to study otherwise,” said Professor of Theater and Speech James Brandon. Some of these one-credit seminars include courses like “Return to Narnia,”...

The cry came from the other side of the tent flap as the orderly rushed in. “President Lincoln is coming!” A wail erupted from the beds of the Confederate wounded. “Oh, don’t leave us, Miss! He is a beast! He will kill us!” “Oh, no. He is a grand good man,” Mary Blackmar replied. Again, the wounded men cried, “Don’t...

At 8 a.m. on Nov. 4, 1945, the women of the Chi Omega sorority slept peacefully in their beds. By 8:15 a.m. the house was in a commotion. “Fire!” Residents sprang to their feet and ran out into the chilly morning to escape the billowing smoke. “There we stood in the backyard in our nightgowns or pajamas and coats, watching...

The deafening roar of musket fire came to a climax as Sgt. Moses Luce reached the Confederate line. He looked around and saw only two men out of the seven he had brought with him still standing. Above the sounds of the battle, he heard a trumpet call. “Retreat,” he thought. He ran back across the field, dropping into a...