Please join the Chesapeake Civil War Roundtable for this lecture. Come at 6:30 PM for socializing, used book sale, coffee, donuts, and artifact displays.

The moral compass of the first American Revolution was the words "All men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence.  11 years later the Constitution was written in an attempt to create a government to secure the rights listed in the Declaration.  Almost 80 years later, The Gettysburg Address became the moral compass of the Second American Revolution as Abraham Lincoln pointed America back to its founding principle in calling for "a new birth of freedom".  And shortly after the Constitution was amended. This talk provides context to the Gettysburg Address to help us understand it as its original audience heard it, but also to understand how much the truths of both the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address are needed again today.