Jon C. Teaford is professor emeritus in the History Department at Purdue University.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] Many of his books received critical acclaim. He retired in 2003.^[2] In 2011–2012 he served as president of the Urban History Association.^[4]

• Teaford, Jon (1975) The Municipal Revolution in America: Origins of Modern Urban Government, 1650–1825. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.^[3]
• Teaford, Jon (1979) City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850–1970. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.^[5]
• Teaford, Jon (1984) The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870–1900. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.^[6]
• Teaford, Jon (1986) The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 3rd ed., 2016.^[7]
• Teaford, Jon (1993) Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.^[8]
• Teaford, Jon (1996) Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. (2nd ed., 2019)
• Teaford, Jon (2006) The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America. New York: Columbia University Press.^[9]
• Teaford, Jon (2008) The American Suburb: The Basics. New York: Routledge.^[10]