Adam Arenson researches, writes, and teaches the history and memory of North America, concentrating on the cultural and political history of the 19th and 20th centuries, including slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction; urban architecture, infrastructure and preservation; and the development of cities from his home state of California to St. Louis to his current home in New York City. 

He holds degrees from Harvard and Yale, and he has moved through the ranks as an assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor. He previously taught at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the former chair of the History Department at Manhattan College, where he previously was the Director of the Urban Studies Program. He is currently teaching in the Honors Program at Iona University.

He writes accessible history including on the pages of The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and he coordinated the Writing History Seminar in New York City.

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