Winter 1776 was a time of need in the colonies, considering Philadelphia and the entire rebel American cause were on the verge of death and the revolution was still viewed as an unsteady prospect. The first volume famously begins: "These are the times that try men's souls." Paine's writings bolstered the morale of the American colonists, appealed to the British people's consideration of the war, clarified the issues at stake in the war, and denounced the advocates of a negotiated peace. Paine also used references to God, saying that a war against Great Britain would be a war with the support of God. Written in a language that the common person could understand, they represented Paine's liberal philosophy. The American Crisis series was used to "recharge the revolutionary cause." Paine, like many other politicians and scholars, knew that the colonists were not going to support the American Revolutionary War without proper reason to do so. The pamphlets were contemporaneous with early parts of the American Revolution, when colonists needed inspiring works. Paine signed the pamphlets with the pseudonym, "Common Sense". The first of the pamphlets was published in The Pennsylvania Journal on December 19, 1776.
Thirteen numbered pamphlets were published between 17, with three additional pamphlets released between 17. The American Crisis, or simply The Crisis, is a pamphlet series by eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution.
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