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Calvin Schermerhorn

@CalScherm

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

Tempe, Arizona, USA Katılım Mart 2015
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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.

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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.
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Ken Burns
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.
The Better Angels Society@BetterAngelsSoc

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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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: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/freedm…
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philip lewis@Phil_Lewis_·
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now whatimreading.net/p/black-owned-…
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Be A King
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
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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?" nytimes.com/2025/12/05/opi…
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Calvin Schermerhorn@CalScherm·
Now out! Without Fear: Black Women & the Making of Human Rights—@KeishaBlain’s brilliant new book tells a 200-year history of Black women who fought for human rights from enslavement through the activists against police violence in our time. Check it out: wwnorton.com/books/97803938…
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Washingtonian 🌸
Washingtonian 🌸@washingtonian·
America’s fight for independence reverberated around the world in significant ways, which UMD history professor Richard Bell explores in his engaging new book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. washingtonian.com/2025/11/12/why…
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Whitney McGruder
Whitney McGruder@whitneymg·
@CalScherm @KeishaBlain This looks incredible! Keisha Blain continues to shed light on powerful stories that deserve to be told, can’t wait to read Without Fear.
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Calvin Schermerhorn@CalScherm·
Chilling to come across this tax receipt showing Frederick Douglass’s Aunt Hester, 16 yo whom, FD wrote, enslaver Aaron Anthony stripped “naked” to the waist and “commenced to lay on the heavy cowskin…[her] warm, blood…came dripping to the floor.” #slaveryarchive @MdArchives
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Calvin Schermerhorn@CalScherm·
"the only way to understand this country...to love [it]...is to tell the truth about it .... that chattel slavery, which lasted in the British American colonies and then the American nation for nearly 250 years, was indeed quite bad." -@ClintSmithIII theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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