A miniseries on the life of John Adams and the first 50 years of the United States will be shared thanks to Dwight & Stephanie and their church, on Monday nights. Back to work after our restoration in Washington and continuing with John Adams, we will watch an hour or so and then engage in open discussion as we continue our journey of learning our history. It's going to be a great opportunity for enlightenment combined with fellowship. Movie Monday is a BYOP event so bring popcorn!

Here are a few more details from amazon about the John Adams mini-series:

Based on David McCullough's bestselling biography, the HBO miniseries John Adams is the furthest thing from a starry-eyed look at America's founding fathers and the brutal path to independence. Adams (Paul Giamatti), second president of the United States, is portrayed as a skilled orator and principled attorney whose preference for justice over anti-English passions earns enemies. But he also gains the esteem of the first national government of the United States, i.e., the Continental Congress, which seeks non-firebrands capable of making a reasoned if powerful case for America's break from England's monarchy. The first thing one notices about John Adams' dramatizations of congress' proceedings, and the fervent pro-independence violence in the streets of Boston and elsewhere, is that America's roots don't look pretty or idealized here. Some horrendous things happen in the name of protest, driving Adams to push the cause of independence in a legitimate effort to get on with a revolutionary war under the command of George Washington. But the process isn't easy: not every one of the 13 colonies-turned-states is ready to incur the wrath of England, and behind-the-scenes negotiations prove as much a part of 18th century congressional sessions as they do today.