Author of The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (2025) @yalepress. From Southern Maryland🍂. Teaches history in Arizona 🌵
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@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" lareviewofbooks.org/article/… @yalepress
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Cool to see @mattdelmont’s amazing Until the Last Gun is Silent at our local Barnes & Noble! barnesandnoble.com/w/until-t…
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1/3) 🧵I am co-editor of the University of Georgia Press book series Race in the Atlantic World, along with historians Toby Green and Brooke Newman. We are welcoming proposals of academic monographs and edited volumes. Here are the series great titles!
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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
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@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." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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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 penguinrandomhouse.com/books… #history
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Once unknown sitter, she has now a name: Eleonora Susette
Jeremias Schultz. Portrait of Eleonora Susette, 1775. Oil on canvas. Overall: 80 Ă— 56.2 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario.
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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
upress.virginia.edu/title/10…
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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. nytimes.com/2026/03/30/opini…
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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!
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RT @AAIHS: ✨We are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Pauli Murray Book Prize is Dr. Jarvis C. McInnis, author of Afterlive…
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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 . . . .
Mar 4
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podbean.com/eas/pb-4x9hm-1a5…
A @NBGPodcastNet program.
@CalScherm #BlackTwitter #Politics #podcast
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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.
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@CalScherm on the next episode of A Moment with Erik Fleming!
A @NBGPodcastNet program.
#BlackTwitter #politics #podcast
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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.
Are you making a documentary about U.S. History? The @librarycongress Lavine/@KenBurns Prize for Fil​m is now ​o​pen for submissions! The Prize​ for Film honors ​exemplary documentary films a​nd awards $350,000 annually. Tell America’s story​ and submit by May 3.
​Apply below. 🎥
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#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: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/freedm…
ALT A family at the Hermitage, Savannah, GA. They stand in front of a small brick house with chimneys at both ends. The scene is set outdoors with large, leafy trees providing shade. The image is in black and white, and the setting appears to be historical.
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There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now whatimreading.net/p/black-ow…
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