The False Cause with Adam Domby

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Greetings all!

Today I am really happy to welcome Dr. Adam H. Domby to the show. I’ve been looking forward to having him on to discuss his new book, The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory. I especially wanted to get his ideas about hitting on the issues he raises in a classroom setting. Listen up - I think you will enjoy the show.

We discuss…

  • Silent Sam - the Confederate Monument on the UNC campus

  • Julian Carr - the Confederate veteran who gave the overtly racist dedication speech

  • The mythology of a “solid South” in Confederate memory

  • How the Lost Cause continues to influence historians today…even in subtle ways

  • Arguing with bad faith trolls on the Internet

  • Academic scholarship in the classroom

  • The good faith discussions between progressives and conservatives and why we need to have them

Adam is an award-winning historian of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the American South. He is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, at the College of Charleston. He has written on a variety of topics including prisoners of warguerrilla warfare, and genealogy. A native of Atlanta and a former park ranger, he received his MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after receiving his BA from Yale University. Adam regularly gives public and private lectures on the Civil War, historical memory, monuments, slavery on college campuses, and southern history. You can follow him on twitter and visit his website to check him out and maybe catch a speaking engagement.

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With compliments,

Keith