Mary Hall: I teach for both Political Science and History. All of my Political Science courses are rooted in Constitutional law, and they include Con Law II (Civil Liberties), Women and the Law, Capital Punishment, Rights of the Criminally Accused, the Supreme Court and Discrimination, and Women and the Law. Next spring (2023) I will be adding a new course on Criminal Justice in Modern America. Although we don’t have a formal pre-law program here, graduates who have moved on to law school often tell me how much they picked up from the POSC courses they took from Sue Grogan, Judge Kinney, and me.

I also teach two 2-credit military history courses. Military history has always been my first love, so, in my late 50s, I went back to school and earned an M.A. in Military History from Norwich University. The Chair of the History Department, Adriana Brodsky, was kind enough to let me jump in and start teaching military history at SMCM. Many people tend to think of military history as just famous generals and battle plans but it’s far more than that now. For example, in my WW2 course, we focus on moral issues of the war, and in both courses we examine how minorities and women have contributed to national security.

Mary Hall: Over the last couple of years I’ve been editing my great-grandfather’s Civil War diary for future publication. A copy of the entries is in the Library of Congress but they have never been made available to the general public.