Gerald A. Danzer (born 9 November 1938) is

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of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a specialist in

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, 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

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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 The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois ...

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) * ''Public Places: Exploring Their History''. Altamira Press, 1987.

1990s

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

2000s

* ''An Atlas of World History''. Borders Press, 2000. * ''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. * ''Maps in Context: A Workbook for American History, Volume II''. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. * ''Chicago's Historic Maps: Resources for Understanding the City''. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, 2007. * ''Illinois: A History in Pictures''. University of Illinois Press, 2011. * ''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.

References

1938 births 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers University of Illinois Chicago faculty Living people Historians of Illinois American historical geographers Historians of cartography Northwestern University alumni 21st-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub