{"id":681,"date":"2009-11-03T16:50:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:41:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:41:25","slug":"filibustering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/11\/03\/filibustering\/","title":{"rendered":"Filibustering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-682\" title=\"HD_walkerW1c\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/11\/HD_walkerW1c-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"HD_walkerW1c\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most students are unfamiliar with the Filibuster of the 1850s. If anything, one associates it with attempts to prevent a vote on bills in the US Senate. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historynow.org\/06_2009\/historian4.html\" target=\"_blank\">T. J. Stiles\u2019 essay <\/a>in the Gilder Lehrman\u2019s online journal <em>History Now<\/em> provides a nice overview of the subject and profiles the infamous \u201cFilibuster King\u201d William Walker. \u201cFilibusters were independent adventurers who launched freelance invasions of foreign countries\u201d and most planned \u201cto annex them to the United States,\u201d as Stiles explains. Walker\u2019s actions violated the US Neutrality Act, but he always believed that he was \u201cdestined to create a central American empire.\u201d One of Walker\u2019s targets was Nicaragua, which he invaded in 1855 and was later forced out by May 1857. While Stiles discusses this invasion, another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historynow.org\/06_2009\/interactive.html\" target=\"_blank\">short essay <\/a>provides images from <em>Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated Newspaper<\/em>. House Divided also has material on <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9589\" target=\"_blank\">this topic<\/a>, including more primary sources related to <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6793\" target=\"_blank\">Walker <\/a>and other filibusters like <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/16049\" target=\"_blank\">John A. Quitman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most students are unfamiliar with the Filibuster of the 1850s. If anything, one associates it with attempts to prevent a vote on bills in the US Senate. T. J. Stiles\u2019 essay in the Gilder Lehrman\u2019s online journal History Now provides a nice overview of the subject and profiles the infamous \u201cFilibuster King\u201d William Walker. \u201cFilibusters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,171,156],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-historic-periodicals","category-images","tag-us-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}