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post-bellum

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post-bellum [ˈpəʊstˈbɛləm]
adj
(prenominal) of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
[Latin post after + bellum war]


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Such a convenient exclusion ignores the horrific realities of the post-bellum period in Iraq.
argues that 19th-century post-bellum abolitionist missionary reformers such as those affiliated with the Association linked concerns about changes in the social position of blacks affected by emancipation and manifested by subsequent attempts at upward mobility, with threats to the social position of the Anglo-Protestant middle class.
She and Abigail, with whom she starts a school, are victimized by wartime sentiments and the post-bellum rise of the forerunners of the Ku Klux Klan.
 
 
 
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