Calvin Schermerhorn

Author of The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (2025) @yalepress. From Southern Maryland🍂. Teaches history in Arizona 🌵

[Calvin Schermerhorn @CalScherm]

@joelegoza on The Plunder of Black America in the @LAReviewofBooks "In Schermerhorn’s hands, this...takes on the flesh and blood of family life—stats become stories, and we must reckon with what happened [&] with the real people it happened to" https://t.co/rM4eINqCcu @yalepress

[Calvin Schermerhorn @CalScherm]

Why do Latina/o households have just 22 cents on the dollar compared to white ones? "The project demonstrates how wealth inequality is the cumulative result of systems that have limited access to opportunity across generations." @UCLA #racialwealthgap
https://t.co/lL4lqyHMOg

[Calvin Schermerhorn @CalScherm]

@LarryGlickman's provocative piece in @TheAtlantic: "For Trump and a group of conservative[s...] to demand now that courts ignore the legal consensus of the past century-plus is effectively to command Americans to...engage in an act of historical amnesia." https://t.co/Es8NoRAdyF

[Calvin Schermerhorn @CalScherm]

@LarryGlickman's provocative piece in @TheAtlantic: "For Trump and a group of conservative[s...] to demand now that courts ignore the legal consensus of the past century-plus is effectively to command Americans to...engage in an act of historical amnesia." https://t.co/Es8NoRAdyF

[Calvin Schermerhorn @CalScherm]

Check out “Until the Last Gun is Silent” by @mattdelmont—a brilliant, searing history of Black soldiers & anti-war activists struggling against racism & charges of betrayal to highlight the battle for justice at the heart of America’s Vietnam War https://t.co/N1Q6jTtmj8 #history

[Calvin Schermerhorn @CalScherm]

Check out “Until the Last Gun is Silent” by @mattdelmont—a brilliant, searing history of Black soldiers & anti-war activists struggling against racism & charges of betrayal to highlight the battle for justice at the heart of America’s Vietnam War https://t.co/N1Q6jTtmj8 #history

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

Once unknown sitter, she has now a name: Eleonora Susette

Jeremias Schultz. Portrait of Eleonora Susette, 1775. Oil on canvas. Overall: 80 × 56.2 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario.

https://t.co/wdImqL5hKG

[UVA Press @uvapress]

Happy #pubday to "Out of Virginia: Black Americans' Search for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Liberia" by Joseph P. Stinnett!

The remarkable journey of a group of Black emigrants from the American South to Liberia after emancipation

#booktwt #blackhistory
https://t.co/kVNFUTNxuR

[Martha S. Jones @marthasjones_]

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about birthright citizenship. Here, for the NYTimes and with Kate Masur, I offer a view of what those of you who think historically should be listening for. https://t.co/q6u29w2RNi

[Manisha Sinha @ProfMSinha]

Folks its Pub Day for this great collection of essays to mark the 250th of the American Revolution. Happy to be included with this stellar group of historians. Get your copy today from UNC Press!

[AAIHS @AAIHS]

✨We are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Pauli Murray Book Prize is Dr. Jarvis C. McInnis, author of Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South! 👏🏾👏🏾
@ColumbiaUP @DukeU @Duke_English @ProfMcInnis
https://t.co/E6GjoDat1F

[Calvin Schermerhorn @CalScherm]

I will do so. I am now at 93 minutes, mostly on hold, shuttled between agents with no explanation. And they are telling me that my "credit" was applied from one to another flight in such a way as to cost me the $400 difference. This is the friction . . . .

[americanair @AmericanAir]

@CalScherm We're all about creating a seamless experience from start to finish, and we're sorry if this hasn't been your experience. Please meet us in DMs with your confirmation code along with the Travel Credit number, and we'll gladly take a closer look, and sort things out for you.

[A Moment with Erik Fleming Podcast @MomentErik]

https://t.co/Rsg8KVxLxe
A @NBGPodcastNet program.
@CalScherm #BlackTwitter #Politics #podcast

[Calvin Schermerhorn @CalScherm]

Why is it so easy to pay @AmericanAir for a fare and so incredibly hard to get a travel credit applied to a trip? They have just taken 61 minutes and two operators, and I will probably hear the American Airlines muzak in my head all night.

[A Moment with Erik Fleming Podcast @MomentErik]

@CalScherm on the next episode of A Moment with Erik Fleming!
A @NBGPodcastNet program.
#BlackTwitter #politics #podcast

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

Are you a doc filmmaker focused on American history? Submit your film for the 2026 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for fim. More information from @BetterAngelsSoc below.

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

#OnThisDay in 1865, Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau. Explore the bounty, challenges and promises of Emancipation in the museum's Freedmen's Bureau Search Portal: https://t.co/gvON2MJWIr

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now https://t.co/hhCJNMwI3k

[A Moment with Erik Fleming Podcast @MomentErik]

https://t.co/ksIWHo2Fgk
A @NBGPodcastNet program.
@CalScherm #blacktwitter #politics #podcast

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

70 years ago today, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began—a powerful act of collective courage that reshaped a nation. For many, it is remembered as the beginning of a global movement. For my family, it was also the beginning of a completely new path.

#BusBoycott70# Nonviolence365

[Calvin Schermerhorn @CalScherm]

@PhilKlay penned a brilliant op/ed about spectaular violence: "we must still ask ourselves a fundamental, private question that, at scale, has broad political implications: Given that we are all, every day, imbibing madness, how do we guard our souls?"
https://t.co/4AB0in5YXR