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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". [1]

Career

Danzer is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago [2] where he has taught an MA program for teachers of history for over thirty years. [3] 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. [4]

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. [5] 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. [4] [6] 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.

References

  1. ^ America's roots in the past. WorldCat. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  2. ^ Danzer, Gerald A. "UI Press - Gerald A. Danzer - Illinois: A History in Pictures". www.press.uillinois.edu.
  3. ^ Gerald A. Danzer. World History Sources, George Mason University. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Q&A with Gerald Danzer, author of Illinois: A History in Pictures | Illinois Press Blog". www.press.uillinois.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  5. ^ Public Places: Exploring Their History. Indiana Magazine of History, June 1989. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Brian Mackey: New book pictures Illinois' past". The Herald News, Fall River, MA. Retrieved 2017-07-17.