Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

In his book "Race & Social Change:  a Quest, a Study, a Call to Action," Max Klau explores how society has achieved breakthroughs towards greater racial justice in the past - and what is necessary in order for that progress to continue.  Klau not only writes about society as a whole through the sweep of recent history, but also writes about his own personal journey in his understanding of race and racial justice. 

Part One is a conversation with concert pianist Jorge Federico Osorio, who is playing a guest recital at Carthage this coming Tuesday evening as part of the Lakeside Piano Festival.  Part Two, from the archives, is with the author of a new biography about Napoleon Bonaparte. 

My guests are Carol Sabbar, Director of Library and Instructional Technology Services at Carthage College- and Mia Bennett, who is her Green Technology Assistant.  They talk about some of the initiatives they have championed to help the school as well as its students and staff live and work in 'greener,' more sustainable ways.  

This is the monthly visit of Bryan Albrecht, the president of Gateway Technical College.  He is joined by Ann Westrich from the Wisconsin Technical College System State Board- and Katie Graft,  GTC's Assistant Director for College Access Partnerships.  This conversation is about how high school students can take certain courses that count both as high school and college credits.

 Betsy Ade, a contestant on TV's "The Voice" - a substitute teacher and musician from Kenosha. 

David Laskin's extraordinary book "The Children's Blizzard" chronicles the story of a monstrous blizzard that struck the midwest on January 12, 1888 and killed hundreds of people - including many children who were caught in the storm while trying to make their way home from school.  The book is epic in its scope yet also deeply personal.  <This interview originally aired in 2005>

This conversation is with Greg Miller, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for the Washington Post, and author of "The Apprentice:  Trump, Russia, and the Subversion of American Democracy."   <this episode originally aired in October of 2018>

Attorney Jonathan D. Karmel's book "Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace" examines the problem of workplace injury and death - not only in our modern day but in a longer historical context.   

Nan Calvert pays her monthly visit to the Morning Show to talk about a topic related to the environment.   Her guest is Abbe Ford,  Manager of Community Relations and Communications at Gateway Technical College.   EcoFest occurs on GTC's Racine campus on March 16th.  

The Misa Tango is a spectacular choral setting of the Latin Mass but composed in the style of the tango.  We speak with Argentinian composer Martin Palmeri... Daniel Binelli, who is one of the world's finest virtuosos on the Argentinian instrument known as the Bandoneon .... and with Dr. Eduardo Garcia-Novelli (also Argentinian) whose Milwaukee Master Singers will perform the work this weekend.

Paul Cortese, a distinguished professional violist who has lived in Barcelona for the last several decades, is back in his hometown of Kenosha for his first performance here since 2005.  He performs with the UW-Parkside orchestra this Saturday night. The interview also includes the Parkside orchestra conductor, Alvaro Garcia.  

Randall Tucker,  Chief Inclusion Officer at Mastercard.  

Best-selling author Tom Clavin ("Last Men Out," "Dodge City") explores the amazing life of Wild Bill Hickok .... and does his best to separate fact from fiction, which is no small feat when one is talking about this kind of larger-than-life figure who lived in the 19th century.  The book is titled "Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter." 

Carthage's Mock Trial team has earned impressive success even when competing with teams from much larger colleges and universities. The interview features local attorney and Carthage professor Michael Phegley, who coaches the team, and Maham Ali and Joshua Kundert, who are the team's student captains.  Also on hand is Dr. Art Cyr, director of the Clausen Center, which sponsors and supports the team. 

Dave Cullen's riveting book "Parkland: Birth of a Movement" chronicles the impressive efforts of a small group of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to change the national conversation about gun control in the wake of the shooting on Feb. 14, 2018 that left 14 of their school mates dead (along with three staff members.)   Cullen wrote one of the most definitive books about Columbine, the first high-profile mass shooting at a U.S. school 19 years earlier. 

Author of "The History of the Future," Blake J. Harris