postbellum
adjective
post·bel·lum
ˌpōs(t)-ˈbe-ləm 
: of, relating to, or characteristic of the period following a war and especially following the American Civil War
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In his manifesto, however, Roof offered perhaps an even more direct nod to his postbellum compatriots.
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TIME, 14 May 2024
The novel invites us to speculate about the resonances between the postbellum era and our own, but they’re not easily identified.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
Greenidge is the author of an earlier, prizewinning study of another leader of the postbellum Black community, William Monroe Trotter, who had an often close but fraught relationship with Archibald Grimke.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
The court repeatedly targeted postbellum civil rights laws, paving the way for Jim Crow.
—Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
For a prosperous Black man in postbellum Arkansas, there are plenty of good reasons to shut out curious strangers.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
The postbellum generation was witnessing not, as many feared at the time, the death throes of the American experiment but the struggle of a butterfly bursting from its cocoon.
—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
How did hookworm shape the economics of the postbellum southern United States?
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2013
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TIME, 14 May 2024
The novel invites us to speculate about the resonances between the postbellum era and our own, but they’re not easily identified.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
Greenidge is the author of an earlier, prizewinning study of another leader of the postbellum Black community, William Monroe Trotter, who had an often close but fraught relationship with Archibald Grimke.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
The court repeatedly targeted postbellum civil rights laws, paving the way for Jim Crow.
—Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
For a prosperous Black man in postbellum Arkansas, there are plenty of good reasons to shut out curious strangers.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
The postbellum generation was witnessing not, as many feared at the time, the death throes of the American experiment but the struggle of a butterfly bursting from its cocoon.
—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
How did hookworm shape the economics of the postbellum southern United States?
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2013
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“Postbellum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postbellum. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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