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What history tells us about what to expect in Mass. and beyond in 2024

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Supporters cheer as then-candidate Joe Biden steps up to the podium before a campaign speech in January 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Supporters cheer as then-candidate Joe Biden steps up to the podium before a campaign speech in January 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

A panel of local historians join Radio Boston to look back on 2023 and tell us what lessons they want taken into 2024.

We're joined by David Gergen, a former White House adviser to four U.S. presidents and founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School; Kellie Carter Jackson, an associate professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College; Maria John, an assistant professor of history at UMass Boston who directs the school's Native American and Indigenous Studies Program and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, research director at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

This segment aired on January 1, 2024.

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