Another excerpt of my @pennpress.bsky.social book was published today in the magazine FINANCIAL HISTORY. In this part I try to expand the redlining story to include the full range of unconventional and predatory mortgage lending. Freely available here: fhmagazine.org/8HEd/p18/p18.

Thanks for listening!!

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

Look what just showed up @m-r-glass.bsky.social !

Key to many of Mamdani’s proposals is immediacy: While new development can take years to happen and even longer to alter market dynamics, programs like a rent freeze for rent-stabilized tenants, or even property tax reform, can be felt as soon as passed. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

LISTEN: @m-r-glass.bsky.social discusses his new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS, which reveals how debt financing "left midcentury suburbs unstable, unequal, and racially segregated," in an interview on the Who Makes Cents podcast! apple.co/48Rv7qa

Mike’s book, as that interview shows, will change a lot of what you think you know about postwar suburbs. www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

New interview! Andrew Anastasi and I discuss the emotional logic of insurance and how racial capitalism is being misconstrued in the present -- as made manifest in some reviews of my book. Grateful for this partnership between @hpe-project.bsky.social and @lpeblog.bsky.social!

Thanks, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social! And @dygottlieb.bsky.social for the conversation on Who Makes Cents. It was lots of fun to chat about the 'burbs!!!

Thanks @kevinmkruse.bsky.social! My enthusiasm was no put-on--the book is just that fantastic and field-shifting. Congrats, @m-r-glass.bsky.social

Really enjoyed doing this interview with highlights from my @pennpress.bsky.social book. Come for the frailties of the postwar "suburban dream," stay for my critique of "abundance." 😉

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Monday night!

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

In disbelief. The NYT named Born in Flames one of 100 Notable Books of 2025

Getting closer to this online book event with the Gotham Center on 12/1! Registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cracked-fo...

My guy Pedro Regalado quoted in this @nytimes.com piece on bodegas, the treasure of every NYC neighborhood. Keep an eye out for his book next year!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/n...

Excited to see more coverage of US municipal finance

“Deporting immigrants to make room for “real” Americans is therefore both about a belief that only certain types of people can be American in the first place and a demand that these authentic Americans be provided an array of nostalgic comforts through government largess.”

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