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Author Event: "The War at Home" with Greg Gaut
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
200 Tower Ave., St. Paul, MN 55111
612-726-1171 | ftsnelling@mnhs.org
About This Event
Join us for an author talk and book signing with Greg Gaut, author of The War at Home: Minnesota During the Great War, 1914-1920, published by MNHS Press.
Americans went to war in 1917 literally against Germany but also against each other. The controversial decision to send an army to France came during a contentious time when farmers and workers challenged the wealthy, African Americans struggled against Jim Crow, women campaigned for suffrage, and millions crusaded against alcohol. In The War at Home, historian Greg Gaut focuses on the lives of individual Minnesotans to tell the dramatic story of this period, when the North Star State experienced bitter polarization, nativism, flagrant disregard for democratic norms, and intense, sometimes violent, confrontations.
Historian and historic preservation consultant Greg Gaut is the author of Laird’s Legacy: A History of the Winona Public Library and Reinventing the People’s Library, about the Carnegie library now home to the East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul. He lives in Minneapolis.
Copies of The War at Home will be available to purchase at the event (limit 2 per attendee). This event is free. Access to the museum and historic fort require purchase of site admission.
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Saturday, October 25, 2025
Author Event: "The War at Home" with Greg Gaut
Join us for an author talk and book signing with Greg Gaut, author of The War at Home: Minnesota During the Great War, 1914-1920, published by MNHS Press.
Americans went to war in 1917 literally against Germany but also against each other. The controversial decision to send an army to France came during a contentious time when farmers and workers challenged the wealthy, African Americans struggled against Jim Crow, women campaigned for suffrage, and millions crusaded against alcohol. In The War at Home, historian Greg Gaut focuses on the lives of individual Minnesotans to tell the dramatic story of this period, when the North Star State experienced bitter polarization, nativism, flagrant disregard for democratic norms, and intense, sometimes violent, confrontations.
Historian and historic preservation consultant Greg Gaut is the author of Laird’s Legacy: A History of the Winona Public Library and Reinventing the People’s Library, about the Carnegie library now home to the East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul. He lives in Minneapolis.
Copies of The War at Home will be available to purchase at the event (limit 2 per attendee). This event is free. Access to the museum and historic fort require purchase of site admission.
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