Emily Marie Michelfelder of Decatur and Drashhti Rajeshkumar Bilimoria of Hapeville graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in the spring.

Daniel Small from Stockbridge, Reilly Richardson from East Point, Alexis Yard from Cumming and Shelbea Owen from Marietta graduated from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia in 2020.

James Mwangi from Monroe earned a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in May.

Mark Slater of Stone Mountain graduated from Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania in the spring.

Breanna Ray of Cartersville, Rebekah Byars of Mableton, Gloria Robinson-Munir and Gregory Stratton of Marietta, LaBraile McCoy of Douglasville, Catherine O’Neill of Roswell and Breon Dixon of Lawrenceville graduated Missouri State University in May.

James Walker and Keegan Connolly of Alpharetta, David Lee of Duluth, Zavier Gebrayel and Logan Mills of Marietta, Cameron Clark of Bogart, Jonathan Westmoreland and Robert Fisher of Kennesaw, Liam Henderson of Atlanta, Joie Royer of Stone Mountain, Connor Ellis Hughes and Daniel Wilkes of Dunwoody, Matthew Dittrich of Lawrenceville, Jacob Josepher of Roswell, Clifford Swindel and Harrison Mansell of Woodstock and Ryan McCarthy of Cumming graduated from The Citadel in May.

Chara Bohan, professor of educational policy studies in the College of Education and Human Development, and her collaborators, including Dean’s Doctoral Fellow Wade Morris, analyzed history textbooks published in the decades after Reconstruction and found the “Lost Cause narrative,” which advocates a heroic view of the Confederacy, not only predominated in Southern classrooms but crept into history textbooks used across the North as well. By the 1930s, the so-called “mint julep” portrayals of figures including John Brown, John Wilkes Booth and Nathan Bedford Forrest had become the national consensus.
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Melinda Roulier is the new principal at Cherokee County Public School's Ball Ground Elementary STEM Academy.
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Carolyn Daugherty is the new principal at Cherokee County Public School's Bascomb Elementary School.
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Mike Santoro is the new principal at Cherokee County Public School's Creekview High School.
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Christy Rich is the new principal at Cherokee County Public School's Macedonia Elementary School.
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