Adam H. Domby

Adam H. Domby is an American historian and professor whose scholarship examines how the American South has remembered and mythologised the Civil War. His work challenges popular narratives and reveals the political motivations behind the construction of Confederate memory. The False Cause is a compelling and meticulously researched book that exposes the myths and fabrications at the heart of the Lost Cause narrative — the ideology that recast the Confederacy's fight to preserve slavery as a noble defence of states' rights and Southern culture. Domby traces how these myths were deliberately constructed and maintained, and how they continue to influence American politics and culture today. His work is part of a broader scholarly and public reckoning with Confederate monuments, symbols, and the stories Americans tell themselves about their past. Domby writes with clarity and authority, making a complex historiographical subject accessible and urgent. The False Cause is available as an audiobook alongside the print edition, giving listeners a thought-provoking and important way to engage with the history of memory and myth in the American South. Domby continues to research and write about the legacies of the Civil War.