Ballard C. Campbell

Ballard C. Campbell is an American historian.

Campbell is a 1962 graduate of Northwestern University. He holds an M.A. (1964) in history from Northeastern University and a Ph.D. (1970) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is Professor in the Department of History and Professor of Public Policy, the Law, and Society Program at Northeastern University.

Publications Books Campbell, Ballard C. Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History. New York: Facts on File, 2008. ⸻. The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995. ⸻, editor. The Human Tradition in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000. ⸻. The Paradox of Power: Statebuilding in America, 1754-1920. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. ⸻. Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern Legislatures in the Late Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. Campbell, Ballard C., Craig R. Coenen, and William G. Shade, editors. American Presidential Campaigns and Elections. 3 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2003. Articles

Campbell, Ballard C. "Comparative Perspectives on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1, no. 2 (2002): 154-78. ⸻. "Did Democracy Work? Prohibition in Late Nineteenth-Century Iowa: A Test Case." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 8, no. 1 (1977): 87-116. ⸻. "Economic Causes of Progressivism." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4, no. 1 (2005): 7-22. ⸻. "Ethnicity and the 1893 Wisconsin Assembly." Journal of American History 62, no. 1 (1975): 74-94. ⸻. "Federalism, State Action, and Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government." Social Science History 16, no. 4 (1992): 561-77. ⸻. "The Good Roads Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1911." Wisconsin Magazine of History 49, no. 4 (1966): 273-93. ⸻. "Understanding Economic Change in the Gilded Era." OAH Magazine of History 13, no. 4 (1999): 16-20.