[applause] lisa brooks. >> we have saved the east for last which seems appropriate here. just want to thank everybody who has spoken and the organizers for inviting us into conversation with each other and i want to express my gratefulness for being here and to be invited a space that is not normally my home space. i hope i can provide some ideas that we can wrestle with. better things you have been talking about for decades. thank you for allowing me to be i wanted to send out a thank you to kristen simmons. i heard her speaking earlier today and it really grounded me in the history of the place. a shout out to her. i really like this idea of international history that you have raised. i think that is kind of the way that my brain works. and i also feel like it fits perfectly with some of the maps i want to share with you. some of you have seen these before. maps asscribed resources from which insights can be gained, that is how i see them also. start with this concept of international history. i've always seen indigent is history as transnational. whether we are talking

lisa brooks from amherst college. i am going to ask susan to start us off. susan: i am holding in my hand a deck of cards. bill: hold the microphone closer. it is on. hand ai am holding in my deck of cards that tells the history of the american west in 4 inch cards. at the dinner, a bunch of abb's were milling around the table where the cards were being handed out. among us was wescott. they went on to a career in film and on stage. us which doubt that we could have more than one deck of cards, we said it is the west, just take it. this reminds me how crucial it is to keep studying the history of places that have been called the west and processing that we have turned frontier and conquest, imperialism and colonialism. it is the west, just take it is not only a quip, it is a critique born of academic inquiry and historical trauma. it is also a form of indigenous humor. not always legibly funny outside of indian country. the western historians gets the rim job. non-western historians get it as well because the taking was continental, hemispheric and a global

brooks. hello to both of you. we had a qui week. you know better than that. mark, lisaalmost 2700 pages ofracripts, testimony, and current and ftimer administ officials in the impeachmentnquiry the president says it is a witchhunt. others have different views. what does it addto uor you? mark: it adds up to the hoax charge has been rebutted and refuted. i think republicans on the mmittee didn't lay a glove on any of the witnesses. it shows to me what one person standing up, the whistleblower, did. it inspired and energized people theer whistleb's initial statement has been fortified and ratified and certified by subsequent witnesses. david:ha even more guilty last week. we are learning the same story over andver again. the quid pro quo really was a quid pro quo. jit was nt a phone call. it was a concerted campaign. the questions to me are, where did it all start? tdid donamp think of this conspiracy theory in his head? how did it get in his head? second, how clear a role did giuliani play? will republicans try to throw giuliani under the bridge, the bus, whatever you th

brooks. hello to both of you. >> judy. >> woodruff: so we had a quiet week. you know better than that. there's a lot going mark, i can lisajardins added it up, almosst 2,700 pa released this week of transcripts,on testof adrrent and former nistration officials in the impeachment inquiry. the president says it's a witch hunt, it's corrupt, doesn't mean anything. others have different views. what does it add up to for you? >> it adds up to that the charge, level again the inquiry has been totally rebutted andkefuted and i thin republicans, quite frankly, on the chitty didn't lay a glove on any of the witnsses. it shows, more than anything else, toha me one person standing up, the whistblower did. gi emboldened, inspired, end people to his credit, and the whistleblower's initial statement has been fortified and ratified and certified by subsequent witnesses. >> woodruff: what does it add up to for you? >> new and improved guilt. we're learning the same story over and over again but with more evidence, strength and underlying that the quid pro quo , noty was a quid pro q just a phone call, not just a few meetings, it was a co