Jon C. Teaford
Jon C. Teaford is professor emeritus in the History Department at Purdue University. He specializes in American urban history and early on in his career he specialized in legal history.
Teaford became interested in history at a young age, stemming from his fascination with president Theodore Roosevelt.
He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1973; his dissertation, The Municipal Revolution in America: Origins of Modern Urban Government, 1650–1825, was also published as a book in 1975.
Many of his books received critical acclaim. He retired in 2003.
In 2011–2012 he served as president of the Urban History Association.
Books
- Teaford, Jon The Municipal Revolution in America: Origins of Modern Urban Government, 1650–1825. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- Teaford, Jon City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850–1970. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Teaford, Jon The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870–1900. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Teaford, Jon The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 3rd ed., 2016.
- Teaford, Jon Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
- Teaford, Jon Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Teaford, Jon The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Teaford, Jon The American Suburb: The Basics. New York: Routledge.