Raymond Ostby Arsenault (born January 6, 1948) is an American historian and academic in Florida, United States of America.
[1][2] Arsenault is a specialist in the political, social, and environmental history of the American South.
His work on this critical period in the civil rights movement became the basis of a two-hour 2010 television documentary film, Freedom Riders.
[3] He appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in an episode dedicated to Freedom Riders.
[1][2] He is married to Kathleen Hardee Arsenault, retired university library dean, and the couple have two daughters, Amelia and Anne.