Milwaukee Buzz - June 23, 2009
Milwaukee Talks: Historian John Gurda
If his previous work cataloging the history of Milwaukee didn't make John Gurda a hometown celebrity, then surely his sprawling and impressive "The Making of Milwaukee" and its accompanying TV series did. We asked Gurda about how he got into the history game and more in this edition of Milwaukee Talks.
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Travel & Visitors Guide - Nov. 6, 2006
Historian Gurda continues chronicling Cream City
OK, you dug Milwaukee Public Television’s five-hour “The Making of Milwaukee” mini series and then you even plowed through John Gurda’s exhaustive history of Brew City -- the one with the same name -- and now you’re hungry for more. Wondering where to go to dig deeper? Try Gurda’s new book, “Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee’s Past.”
Tags: Gurda, Historical Society, Cream City Chronicles, Making of Milwaukee, MPTV

Milwaukee Buzz - Oct. 9, 2006
Making "The Making of Milwaukee" was a labor of love
At some point during the creation of “The Making of Milwaukee,” a five-hour miniseries tracing the history of our city, writer and historian John Gurda stopped counting the hours he had put in. But he’s the first to admit that he wasn’t alone.
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