Mike Glass
@m-r-glass.bsky.social
Historian at Boston College. Pre-order CRACKED FOUNDATIONS: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America (@PennPress, 10/7): https://tinyurl.com/yc5evxeh
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Mike Glass
@m-r-glass.bsky.social
· Oct 7
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...
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...
Excellent analysis of the fiscal challenges -- and opportunities -- awaiting Mamdani.
jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...
jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...
Mayor Mamdani’s Budget Can Add Up
New York’s incoming socialist mayor faces real fiscal constraints — but also real opportunities. With a strong tax base, modest reforms, and a clear political mandate, Zohran Mamdani has the tools to ...
jacobin.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Excellent analysis of the fiscal challenges -- and opportunities -- awaiting Mamdani.
jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...
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...
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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...
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
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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...
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...
American Suburbs Have a Financial Secret
Municipal bonds have become an unavoidable part of local governance—and their costs divide rich towns from poor ones.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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...
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...
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Thrilled to see my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social's brilliant first book reviewed in @theatlantic.com.
American Suburbs Have a Financial Secret
Municipal bonds have become an unavoidable part of local governance—and their costs divide rich towns from poor ones.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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.
Freely available here: fhmagazine.org/tRDd/p18/p18.
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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.
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...
Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cracked-fo...
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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...
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.
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.
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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.
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.
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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.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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.
@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.
If Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral race next month, he’ll face some major constraints funding his campaign promises. @schooldaves.bsky.social writes on the straitjacket of the municipal bond market.
Paying for It | David I. Backer
Should Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City, he will be restricted by the municipal bond market.
thebaffler.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Must read from @schooldaves.bsky.social on how municipal socialism must contend with the bond market.
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Found the future of the field in my mailbox. Huge congrats @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social @m-r-glass.bsky.social @randolphjustin.bsky.social ! ! !
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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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
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
kind of strange to watch other disciplines absorb the shock of austerity that History has faced pretty much relentlessly since 2009
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Reposted by Mike Glass
Price Lab exec committee member @brentcebul.bsky.social and Mike Glass are in the Journal of American History on FHA housing and segregation
Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America
On a hot afternoon in July 1954, Fred C. Trump sat as a witness before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. He had been subpoenaed for an investig
academic.oup.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Price Lab exec committee member @brentcebul.bsky.social and Mike Glass are in the Journal of American History on FHA housing and segregation
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A Roosevelt/New Deal poster from 1940
October 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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!! 😊
October 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I've really appreciated people sending me pictures of my Book Baby out in the world. Please keep them coming!! 😊
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From Kim Phillips-Fein’s brand new review of Melinda Cooper’s COUNTERREVOLUTION. 🗃️
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
October 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
From Kim Phillips-Fein’s brand new review of Melinda Cooper’s COUNTERREVOLUTION. 🗃️
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Book launch TOMORROW at @bplmaps.bsky.social!!! 🏠
Boston followers: Don't miss author @m-r-glass.bsky.social discussing his new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS, about how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities, tomorrow 10/15 at @bplmaps.bsky.social! Register now to reserve your spot.
bit.ly/46Rhwzb
bit.ly/46Rhwzb
October 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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!!!
October 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Spotted this @pennpress.bsky.social beauty in the wild in Los Angeles. Thank you to @urbanhistorya.bsky.social for a wonderful conference!!!
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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...
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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...
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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...
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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!
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!
Check it out!
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
😲 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!
This book started with discussions in your office, where I always chewed gum too loudly!
Reposted by Mike Glass
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!
Check it out!
October 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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!
Check it out!
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And another beauty just arrived! Congrats @m-r-glass.bsky.social!
October 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
And another beauty just arrived! Congrats @m-r-glass.bsky.social!
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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 ⤵️
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...
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...
October 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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...
Link here: newbooksnetwork.com/cracked-foun...
October 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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...
Link here: newbooksnetwork.com/cracked-foun...