Underground Usa

Every year, when Independence Day approaches—and you’ll notice I say Independence Day and not “the Fourth of July”—I rewatch the HBO series John Adams. Now, I know historical purists will gravitate towards some of the artistic license in the series, but for the most part, the storyline is true, and the place the viewer is brought to accurately portrays the frustration, danger, and uncertainty the Founding Generation held at hand.While the entire series is absolutely worth watching—and more than appropriately, this week—I have pulled a few of the more memorable moments from the series to illustrate the intensity of what it must have been like to go through those moments in time.We often forget that at the time of the American Revolution, there were no countries that had created a system of government for themselves. Most governments stemmed from monarchies. So the very idea of “liberty,” of a free people establishing a government for themselves, was a foreign idea.But with each aggression perpetrated against t