post-bellum

/ ˈpəʊstˈbɛləm /

adjective

1. prenominal of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War

Word History and Origins

Origin of post-bellum¹

C19: Latin post after + bellum war

Example Sentences

Newly available photographs whose labels include Price’s maternal grandmother, Mary McCoy, and great-grandmother, Margaret Collins, appear to confirm that they would have been perceived as white according to post-bellum racial thought.

From New York Times

Newly available photographs whose labels include Price’s maternal grandmother, Mary McCoy, and great-grandmother, Margaret Collins, appear to confirm that they would have been perceived as white according to post-bellum racial thought.

From New York Times

How did Edith Bolling, born and raised in Wytheville, Va., a sleepy town nestled in post-bellum Appalachia, ultimately become one of the most powerful first ladies in American history?

From Washington Post

In post-bellum Barbour County, Cowie writes, “peace only prevailed for freed people when federal troops were in town” — and then only barely.

From New York Times

They won’t learn how law enforcement has historically been a tool of racial oppression, from the patrollers of the slavery era to the convict leasing of the post-bellum years to Bull Connor in 1963 to Derek Chauvin last year.

From Seattle Times