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Jonathan Rosenberg teaches U.S. history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research focuses on thehistory of the United States in a global context. His current project, From the New World: International Politics and Classical Music in Twentieth-Century America, examines how classical musicians, composers, and performingorganizations in the United States understood and responded tointernational developments from the First World War to the Cold War.Rosenberg is the author of How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam (Princeton University Press, 2006). He is the co-author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes (W.W. Norton, 2003); and he co-edited Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 1999). In addition to contributing articles and reviews to a variety of scholarly publications, Rosenberg has written for The Christian Science Monitor, The Wilson Quarterly, and The Washington Post.