Greg Gaut

Greg Gaut is emeritus faculty at Saint Mary’s University in Winona, where he taught European and Russian history. Since 2012, he has worked as a historic preservation consultant. He and his wife, Marsha Neff, are regular contributors 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, Greg has published both Laird's Legacy: A History of the Winona Public Library and Reinventing the People's Library, a history of St. Paul's Arlington Hills Public Library. The latter, a Carnegie library, is now the East Side Freedom Library. His current research focuses on the Minnesota home front during World War I. One result of this research, the article “Hardware Store Sedition: The Case of Charles W. Anding,” won the Solon J. Buck Award for the best article in Minnesota History for 2020.