Gerald Danzer

Gerald A. Danzer (born 9 November 1938) is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a specialist in historical geography, world history, and the use of old maps as historical sources.

Early life

Gerald Danzer was born on 9 November 1938. He received his Ph.D from Northwestern University in 1967 for a dissertation on the subject of "America's Roots in the Past: Historical Publication in America to 1860".

Career

Danzer is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he has taught an MA program for teachers of history for over thirty years. He is a specialist in historical geography, world history, and the use of old maps as historical sources. He is a former director of the Chicago Neighborhood History Project.

Selected publications

1980s

• People Space and Time. The Chicago Neighborhood History Project: An Introduction to Community History for Schools. University Press Of America, 1986. (Joint author) ISBN 0819152226
• Public Places: Exploring Their History. Altamira Press, 1987. ISBN 0761989315

1990s

• Discovering Western Civilization Through Maps and Views. Harper Collins, 1991. (With David Buisseret) ISBN 0673535967
• Mapping World History: A Guide for Beginning Students. Harper Collins, 1992. ISBN 0065005600
• The Americans. McDougal Littell, Evanston, 1998. (Multiple later and variant editions) ISBN 0395851823
• World History: An Atlas and Study Guide. Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN 0130953822

2000s

• An Atlas of World History. Borders Press, 2000. ISBN 0681465727
• The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century. McDougal Littell, Evanston, 2003.
• Maps in Context: A Workbook for American History, Volume I. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. ISBN 978-0312434816
• Maps in Context: A Workbook for American History, Volume II. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. ISBN 978-0312434823
• Chicago's Historic Maps: Resources for Understanding the City. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, 2007. ISBN 9780942579253
• Illinois: A History in Pictures. University of Illinois Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0252032882
• The World's Columbian Exposition, 1893: Reconstructing the Geography of Chicago's World's Fair by way of a Fire Insurance Atlas. Privately printed, Chicago, 2014.