Listen to Professor Bon Tempo speak about his new book, Americans at
the Gate at
http://newbooksinhistory.com/?p=338
Select Publications:
Americans at
the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War,
Princeton University Press, “Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century
America” (currently in press with a publication date of October 15,
2008.)
“American Exceptionalism and Modern Immigration History in the United
States” in Jamey Carson and Sylvia Soderlind, eds., American Exceptionalisms
(Albany, NY: SUNY Press, forthcoming in 2009.)
Current Research Interests:
My current research project – titled Human Rights at Home – explores
the fate of human rights politics and policies in the United States
from the “human rights moment” of the 1970s to the present. My research
examines how human rights ideas and principles in the United States
shaped – and were shaped by – both the domestic environment and international
events. As such, the book that results from my research will open new
windows onto some of the most important issues in the contemporary United
States: the rise of the conservative right, the decline of liberalism,
the fate of the “rights revolution,” the post-1960s histories of the
African American, feminist, and homosexual freedom movements, and American
foreign policy in the late Cold War and post-Cold War era.
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