Adam Arenson is Chair of the History Department and a Professor of History at Manhattan College. He is also the former Director of the Urban Studies Program.

He holds degrees from Harvard and Yale, and he previously taught at the University of Texas at El Paso. He researches, writes, and teaches the history and memory of North America, concentrating on the cultural and political history of slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction, as well as the development of cities--from his home state of California to St. Louis, and on both sides of the U.S-Canada border. 

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 coordinates the Writing History Seminar in New York City, where he lives.

For even more information, see his faculty page.