Adam Arenson

Adam Arenson is a Professor of History at Manhattan College. Originally from California, he has published two award-winning books - The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War (Harvard, 2011/paperback Missouri, 2015) and Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California (Texas, 2018), - and co-edited volumes Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States (California, 2015) and Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire (Penn, 2013). His current book project explores the experience of African North Americans crossing the US-Canada border in the era of U.S. emancipation, during and after the Civil War.