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Today's featured article John Neal American Writers is an 1824–25 work of literary criticism by American writer and critic John Neal (pictured). Published by Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, it is the first history of American literature and the first substantial work of criticism concerning US authors. Using no reference materials, Neal made incorrect assertions about many of the more than 120 authors covered. Scholars nevertheless praise the staying power of his opinions, many reflected by critics decades later. Neal also argued American literature relied too much on British precedent and had failed to develop its own voice. Neal wrote the series in London under the English pseudonym of "Carter Holmes", which convinced few. American Writers was well received in the UK but drew considerable ire in the US, particularly from William Lloyd Garrison. Neal was met with hostility and a fistfight on an 1827 visit to his hometown of Portland, Maine; he relocated there and remained until his death forty-nine years later. (Full article...) Recently featured: 1271 Avenue of the Americas Apocalypse of Peter Texas Centennial half dollar Selected anniversaries December 18: National Day in Qatar (1878) Atlas rocket carrying SCORE 1622 – Portuguese forces and their Imbangala allies defeated the Kongo army at the Battle of Mbumbi. 1932 – Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in the first playoff game of the National Football League. 1958 – The United States launched SCORE (rocket pictured), the world's first communications satellite. 1963 – Ghanaian and other African students organized a protest in Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of medical student Edmund Assare-Addo. 2017 – An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont, Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others. Yaonian Yanmujin (d. 933) Edith of Wessex (d. 1075) Ty Cobb (b. 1886) Keith Richards (b. 1943) More anniversaries: December 17 December 18 December 19

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