The American Crisis is a pamphlet series written by Thomas Paine. The first one was read aloud to the Continental Army on December 23, 1776, three days before the Battle of Trenton.
The goal was to boast the morale and resistance among patriots, as well as shame neutrals.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which in 1970 established NPR to provide programming to the nation's noncommercial and educational radio stations, most of them situated at the low end of the FM radio dial.
