Antebellum
Antebellum or ante-bellum (literally, Latin for "before the war") may refer to:
- Generally, pre-war; the time period preceding a war
- Antebellum Bulldog, an American dog breed, developed in the Altamaha River Valley Basin, a region of South Eastern Georgia
- Lady Antebellum, an American country music group.
- The Antebellum Era in the United States, where the term refers to pre-Civil War America, especially the pre-Civil War culture in the southern states. Specifically, the era in the history of the United States after the American Revolution and the establishment of the U.S. as a sovereign nation, yet before the U.S. Civil War. There is disagreement over the starting and ending dates.
- Antebellum architecture, the neoclassical architectural style of the American South during the Antebellum era
- Antebellum South Carolina, typically defined by historians as the period of South Carolina between the War of 1812 and the American Civil War