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, Policy, and Society Program at Northeastern University.

Books

• Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History, (Facts OnFile, New York. February, 2008)Editor and Author

• American Presidential Campaigns and Elections (Armonk, NY: MESharpe, 2003, 3 volumes), co-edited with William G. Shade.

• The Human Tradition in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000. Rowman and Littlefield assumed imprint.). Editor and contributor, volume of original essays.

• The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995).

• Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern Legislatures in the late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1980