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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The novel invites us to speculate about the resonances between the postbellum era and our own, but they’re not easily identified.
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Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
In this case, hookworm infection deleteriously affected the agricultural output and economic development of the postbellum South.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2011
How did hookworm shape the economics of the postbellum southern United States?
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2013
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
Kelley’s career, together with that of his yet more radical daughter, Florence, epitomized the emerging cause of social democracy in the postbellum political world.
—Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 21 June 2021
This was the dawning of a new and fragile postbellum pluralism, grounded not in pure reason but in mutual détente.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
In this case, hookworm infection deleteriously affected the agricultural output and economic development of the postbellum South.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2011
How did hookworm shape the economics of the postbellum southern United States?
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2013
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
Kelley’s career, together with that of his yet more radical daughter, Florence, epitomized the emerging cause of social democracy in the postbellum political world.
—Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 21 June 2021
This was the dawning of a new and fragile postbellum pluralism, grounded not in pure reason but in mutual détente.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
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