Gerald Danzer was born on November 9, 1938. He received his PhD 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 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) ISBN0819152226
Public Places: Exploring Their History. Altamira Press, 1987. ISBN0761989315
1990s
Discovering Western Civilization Through Maps and Views. Harper Collins, 1991. (With David Buisseret) ISBN0673535967
Mapping World History: A Guide for Beginning Students. Harper Collins, 1992. ISBN0065005600
The Americans. McDougal Littell, Evanston, 1998. (Multiple later and variant editions) ISBN0395851823
World History: An Atlas and Study Guide. Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN0130953822
2000s
An Atlas of World History. Borders Press, 2000. ISBN0681465727
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. ISBN978-0312434816
Maps in Context: A Workbook for American History, Volume II. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. ISBN978-0312434823
Chicago's Historic Maps: Resources for Understanding the City. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, 2007. ISBN9780942579253
Illinois: A History in Pictures. University of Illinois Press, 2011. ISBN978-0252032882
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.
