On December 19, 1776, Tom Paine published one of a series of pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled The American Crisis. Exactly one year later, George Washington’s Continental Army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
On December 19, 1828, Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun penned the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828, a key moment in what became known as the Nullification Crisis.
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D_rn you, Paul! Now I’m associated with someone who mentioned Calhoun, which means that Nancy MacLean can claim that my work in economics is really an attempt to advance racial segregation!
(Well, I guess that she could have inferred that I’d spent many hours in or near the Main Library of the Ohio State University, which doubtless had books collecting Calhoun’s writings and records of his remarks.)