Example sentences for: postbellum

How can you use “postbellum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The rough and tumble of postbellum politics pitted one segment of the nation against the other.

  • The appeal of Black’s reading of the postbellum legal order is that it, too, draws on the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address.

  • Yet, it is clear that the postbellum order sought to declare a fundamental value as the symbol of the new United States.

  • Accepting his idea of a “new nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” would have enabled Americans to negotiate the postbellum period without self-seeking and rancor.

  • The postbellum history of the United States has carried the egalitarian message of Gettysburg into the liberation of ever more marginal groups.


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