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John Gurda became Milwaukee\u2019s best-known historian somewhat accidentally.<\/p>\n

51ÁÔÆæ alum Gurda has written 22 books about Milwaukee institutions, neighborhoods and history, including the iconic \u201cMaking of Milwaukee,\u201d which also became an Emmy-award-winning PBS series. Among other projects, he provides the historical perspective on Wisconsin neighborhoods and towns for Milwaukee Public Television\u2019s \u201cAround the Corner with John McGivern<\/a>,\u201d the highest-rated locally produced show in its time slot nationally, writes a local history column for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and lectures extensively.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can’t think if anyone who knows\u00a0Milwaukee’s past better than John Gurda,\u201d said David Haynes, opinion\/Ideas Lab editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. \u201cFor more than 20 years, he’s been telling the stories of the city’s history on our pages \u2014 and I learn something every time. He’s a gifted storyteller and an equally gifted scholar.\u201d<\/p>\n

‘Completely unpremeditated’<\/h3>\n

Gurda\u2019s history writing career started 45 years ago when he was working at a then small south-side youth services agency, Journey House. Gurda was tapped to help write a pamphlet for potential funders \u2013 \u201cwhat we\u2019d call a case statement today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was completely unpremeditated. All of a sudden I was doing historical research about a neighborhood where my family on my dad\u2019s side had arrived back in the 1880s.\u201d<\/p>\n

His grandparents owned a hardware store at 32nd<\/sup>and Lincoln for 50 years, and Gurda spent a huge part of his childhood there.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I did research, I began to realize that the neighborhood story and my story were intertwined,\u201d Gurda said. \u201cAnd both were intertwined with the Milwaukee story, and the Milwaukee story is part of the American story.\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing led to another, with Gurda taking on other jobs and other writing assignments, and the rest, as they say, is history. \u201cI always say my autobiography should be titled \u201945 Years of 1099s,\u2019\u201d he jokes, referring to the tax form contractors and freelancers receive in place of the more common W-2 that employees receive.<\/p>\n

51ÁÔÆæ provides the tools<\/h3>\n

After leaving Journey House, \u201cI would write things, largely for free, and then they\u2019d get published,\u201d Gurda said. \u201cI soon realized that I didn\u2019t really know what I was doing and needed more tools, which led me to 51ÁÔÆæ. It was the obvious choice both in terms of affordability and the range of programs.\u201d \u00a0He earned his master\u2019s degree in cultural geography in 1978. He also received an honorary doctorate in 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just had an excellent experience there and came out of the geography program with a lot more respect for evidence and with more tools for doing research.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he continued to write a series of books and stories about businesses and neighborhoods, he realized he had the raw material for a comprehensive history of Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had all this knowledge about insurance companies and churches and cemeteries and neighborhoods and corporations and industry, so I had this fairly interesting range of pieces of the puzzle. I felt both a desire and a responsibility to take these pieces and make the puzzle whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, it wasn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got into it, I found I\u2019d barely scratched the surface,\u201d Gurda said. \u201cIt\u2019s a little like having babies \u2013 you wouldn\u2019t do it if you knew how much was involved, how much work, hardship and pain you\u2019d be feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four years in the works<\/h3>\n

With funding from underwriters, he spent four years writing \u201cThe Making of Milwaukee,\u201d which came out in 1999. He quickly realized it was a good fit for TV.\u00a0 With help from local philanthropists, the book was made into a five-hour PBS series<\/a>\u00a0that came out in 2006. Gurda worked with 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Linda TiezzI Waldera, then an instructor in the School of Education, to create a teachers guide for the book and the series.<\/p>\n

Right now, he\u2019s in the midst of updating that book for a reprint.<\/p>\n

\u201cMilwaukee: A City of Neighborhoods,\u201d which Gurda describes as a geographic companion to the history, grew out of project he did years ago for the City of Milwaukee, writing brief histories for a series of posters featuring Milwaukee neighborhoods. The history segments were printed on the back of the posters \u2013 \u201cNo one knew they were there. It was kind of like writing on the back of a postage stamp.\u201d<\/p>\n

For that book, his largest to date \u2013 \u201cit weighs about six and a half pounds\u201d \u2013 Gurda did a lot of exploring around the city on foot and on his bike.<\/p>\n

That bike become part of his persona when he started recording \u201cAround the Corner with John McGivern,\u201d a series of popular PBS shows about Wisconsin cities, villages, towns and neighborhoods. \u00a0\u201cJohn is the personality of the show. I just came in to offer a bit of historical perspective,\u201d says Gurda. Since the first segment was shot near his home, he rode his bike over, and the producer decided to incorporate it into the show. (In farther away places, he brings it along on a bike rack.)<\/p>\n

A new book<\/h3>\n

Gurda\u2019s latest book \u2013 \u201cMilwaukee: A City Built on Water<\/a>\u201d \u2013 took an unusual route to publication. That one began as a talk and PowerPoint presentation, then got turned into a one-hour documentary, and then the Wisconsin Historical Society Press asked him to turn it into a book. \u201cUsually the print is first and then you go to the movie, so this is backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now 70, Gurda isn\u2019t thinking about retiring, he says, as long as he has the capacity and the stamina and the public is still interested. Milwaukee has always been a town that has an intense interest in its own history and remembers its many ethnic neighborhoods, he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a city where roots are important.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, he continues to follow his passion \u2013 exploring why things are the way they are. \u201cThe subject continues to fascinate me. If you have any interest in who you are and what the world around you is about, there is absolutely no substitute for history. You\u2019ve got to have that sense of the past if you want to have any sense of the present, or, for that matter, the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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