Gaut, Greg: - Historian Greg Gaut taught at a liberal arts college for two decades and has worked for ten years as a historic preservation consultant, primarily preparing National Register of Historic Places nominations around the state of Minnesota. With his wife and coauthor 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 St. Paul's Arlington Hills Public Library, 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. He holds a doctorate in modern European and Russian history from the University of Minnesota.