Week of Nov. 12, 2007

NEWS AT HOME

Jena Is More than Jena and a Noose Is More than a Nuisance JAMES WEST DAVIDSON
http://hnn.us/articles/44433.html

Why Do Democrats Have an Identity Crisis? It Goes Back to the McGovern Landslide Loss BRUCE MIROFF
http://hnn.us/articles/43922.html

Two Misunderstandings About Immigration DANIEL KANSTROOM
http://hnn.us/articles/44095.html


Long Before There Was Stephen Colbert There Was Pat Paulson RANEY MCKOOL
http://hnn.us/articles/44536.html

HISTORIANS & HISTORY

Top Young Historians: This Week ... Todd Shepard BONNIE GOODMAN
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/44534.html

Was Nadia Abu El Haj Treated Fairly? RALPH HARRINGTON
http://hnn.us/articles/44538.html

Did David Brooks Tell the Full Story About Reagan's Neshoba County Fair Visit? JOSEPH CRESPINO
http://hnn.us/articles/44535.html

Is David Brooks a Good Historian? CAROL V. HAMILTON
http://hnn.us/articles/44469.html

Making a Picture Book: How TIME Does It KELLY KNAUER
http://hnn.us/articles/44041.html

CULTURE WATCH

Is Country Music Inherently Conservative? PETER LA CHAPELLE
http://hnn.us/articles/42602.html

The Movie that Tells Us How Politics Really Works in Our Democracy DAVID HAVEN BLAKE
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/44465.html

BOOKS

Review of David Halberstam's The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War MURRAY POLNER
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/43033.html

Review of David Everitt's A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television RON RADOSH
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/43068.html