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Historian Douglas Brinkley Rings In The New Year

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Flipping wooden cubes for the New Year change from 2020 to 2021. (Getty Images)

2020 was certainly a year for the history books with a pandemic, an election and the third presidential impeachment trial in American history.

The new year brings a new president who will also have to deal with the COVID-19 crisis.

Host Tonya Mosley speaks with one of the country’s leading historians, Douglas Brinkley, about what lies ahead and what we’ve left behind.

 

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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