GWM Book Review: ‘The Birth of the New South’

In 2012, the United States commemorated the Civil War sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the start of the war. At the time, I was working at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Needless to say, the sesquicentennial was a notable moment for our national history, and for the museum. Despite this, I never learned to properly spell “sesquicentenn…