Excellent analysis of the fiscal challenges -- and opportunities -- awaiting Mamdani. jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...

I so appreciate this review of my book from @michaelwaters.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com about the "secret American pastime" of municipal bonds. Check it out! www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

American cities and towns regularly turn to private investors to raise funds for schools and basic infrastructure and on the private bond market, the rich ones win and the poor inevitably lose wrote about the long arc of municipal debt for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

Thrilled to see my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social's brilliant first book reviewed in @theatlantic.com.

An excerpt of my @pennpress.bsky.social book -- on school bonds in Levittown -- was just published in FINANCIAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. 🤑 Freely available here: fhmagazine.org/tRDd/p18/p18.

Next month (12/1) I'm doing an online book event with the Gotham Center, where I'll be in conversation with Susie Pak. Please join us for a discussion about "The Precarious Wealth of Postwar Long Island." Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cracked-fo...

Speaking of @schooldaves.bsky.social, I'm so excited about his book that I accidentally bought myself two copies! 🤦‍♂️ This book is essential for understanding how we got here with unequal school funding -- but, even more importantly, Dave has concrete ideas for how to build a better system.

A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.

Must read from @schooldaves.bsky.social on how municipal socialism must contend with the bond market.

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kind of strange to watch other disciplines absorb the shock of austerity that History has faced pretty much relentlessly since 2009

Boston. Wow.

Price Lab exec committee member @brentcebul.bsky.social and Mike Glass are in the Journal of American History on FHA housing and segregation

A Roosevelt/New Deal poster from 1940

I've really appreciated people sending me pictures of my Book Baby out in the world. Please keep them coming!! 😊

From Kim Phillips-Fein’s brand new review of Melinda Cooper’s COUNTERREVOLUTION. 🗃️ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Book launch TOMORROW at @bplmaps.bsky.social!!! 🏠

Spotted this @pennpress.bsky.social beauty in the wild in Los Angeles. Thank you to @urbanhistorya.bsky.social for a wonderful conference!!!

higher education in 2025, where students can coordinate public harassment campaigns against faculty with impunity but also where professors can’t actually flee the country to escape threats to murder them in class (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

CRACKED FOUNDATIONS by @m-r-glass.bsky.social (out this week!) examines how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities. Listen to Glass's conversation with Jenna Pittman on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to learn more! newbooksnetwork.com/cracked-foun...

😲 Thank you ‪@kevinmkruse.bsky.social for all the support and encouragement over the years!!! This book started with discussions in your office, where I always chewed gum too loudly!

Just got my copy of this brilliant new book by my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social, an amazing new study of postwar suburbia on Long Island. Check it out!

And another beauty just arrived! Congrats @m-r-glass.bsky.social!

Not going to age myself by saying how long I’ve been following @m-r-glass.bsky.social’s work, but I will say it’s a necessary and mind-blowing read. It answers so many questions about real estate, race, debt and injustice in US suburbs—and most importantly, it asks the right ones. Get it &teach it ⤵️

I was delighted to join Jenna Pittman on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for a conversation about CRACKED FOUNDATIONS (@pennpress.bsky.social). We talked real estate, inequality, and how the suburbs still hold a cherished place in American politics. Link here: newbooksnetwork.com/cracked-foun...

Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉 For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal! www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

There is a Georgia highway I know well, having ridden its ribbons of asphalt as a child, a teen, and a home-for-a-visit adult for half a century. It’s a history of racial capitalism. Phase 1: Pull value from the soil through enslaved labor and unfree sharecropping labor, to the mid-20thC

The men are not alright. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nick Juravich tonight at Teachers College, on his great new book on “how schools shaped not just individual students through instruction, but also the distribution of employment opportunities, paths for political participation, and the process of community formation in the city.” #histed #union

Helpful provocation from Gabe Winant, who still hasn't migrated from X. Nice of him to write it out like this. I don't think it all hangs together. Might have to respond lpeproject.org/blog/marxism...

Next month is the book launch event for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS (@pennpress.bsky.social) at the @bpl.boston.gov, where I'll be in conversation with the inimitable Lizabeth Cohen. Hope to see many Boston folks there! Registration here: www.leventhalmap.org/event/author...

Hundreds of towns in the American West have histories of anti-Chinese violence. Some are starting to apologize.

Beautiful essay, and a reminder that this madness has quite recent historical precedents. “Now the attacks feel like yet another manifestation of the relentless self-preservation of the powerful…” www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Excited to read this!!

Fantastic new historical mapping resource on the FHA's Section 608 multifamily rental housing program from @brentcebul.bsky.social, Mike Glass, and their team. Complete with downloadable data! Incredible work buildinginequality.us

Hi everyone, I'm here (finally!). But better late than never, right? Thrilled to launch this project with @brentcebul.bsky.social !!