Ballard Campbell is professor of history at Northeastern University. He is past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and author of Representative Democracy (1980) and The Growth of American Government (1995). He is completing a work on disasters, accidents, and crises in American history; writing Building the American State: The Long Nineteenth Century in Comparative Perspective; and researching the impact of depressions on society.

Lecture topics:

• Disaster! Catastrophe and Crisis in American History
• Depressions and American Elections
• Popular versus Professional History (Authors v. Academics)

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