Ballard C. Campbell is an American historian. Campbell is a 1962 graduate of

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. He holds an M.A. (1964) in history from

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and a Ph.D. (1970) from the

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. He is Professor in the Department of History and Professor of Public Policy, the Law, and Society Program at

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.

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