Greg Gaut
Biography:
Greg Gaut is an historian whose career has included two decades of teaching at a liberal arts college and a decade of work as an historic preservation consultant primarily preparing National Register of Historic Places nominations around the state of Minnesota. With his wife and co-author Marsha Neff, he is a frequent contributor to Minnesota History, and two of their articles won the David Gebhard Award for the best article on Minnesota’s built environment. A lover of libraries, he published Laird's Legacy: A History of the Winona Public Library and Reinventing the People's Library, a history of a Carnegie library in St. Paul's which is now the East Side Freedom Library. His article on a World War I espionage case, “Hardware Store Sedition: The Case of Charles W. Anding,” won the Solon J. Buck Award for the best article in Minnesota History for 2020. In 2025, Minnesota Historical Society Press published his The War at Home: Minnesota During the Great War, 1914–1920. He holds a doctorate in Modern European and Russian history from the University of Minnesota.
