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politicsnation. tonight s lead, brotherly love. you re looking at a live shot of philadelphia s temple university where donald trump is expected to take the stage in a couple of hours, continuing his effort to court black voters by going into heavily black democratic cities and talking about black america s problems as he sees them to largely nonblack maga audiences. democrats have responded by flooding the university area with receipts of donald trump s record with black america. at the same time promoting the achievements of joe biden, who has his first opportunity to contrast himself with trump in real time this coming thursday as both camps prepare for the first presidential debate. with black voters historically caught in the middle of this election cycle with just months to go, we have joining me now, philadelphia mayor parker, a democrat. donald trump is is about to take the rally stage at philly s temple university, the latest of several campaign events he s h ....
point/counterpoint. but i expect that to happen. at any moment. so i have all the questions here. they re really good ones. and not surprisingly, there are about four of them that are basically the same, but with a little bit of a twist. and it was a question that i was planning to ask anyway. so what i would like to do is just start over here and one at a time tell me who you think was the most hated general of the war. i think we all pretty much know this answer already. but and we ll go down the panel with that, and then start back here and say who do you think was the most loved general of the war. okay? so let s start over here. the most hated general of the war. i get not only that question, but i getting to first. [ laughter ] can you start on that end? so i can kind of deal with the rest of us? you re on the spot. okay. i m not seriously i am not dodging when i answer this. i don t hate any of them. i really don t. anybody of any rank from private to g ....
up next, the best selling historical novelist jeff shaara focuses on the latter half of the civil war involving sherman and the end of the civil war. he argues against the depiction of sherman is a villain and talks about how slaves reacted to his military victory. the smithsonian associates posted this 90 minute event. . good evening everyone. can everyone hear me well? good. i am mary maclachlan, you program coroner with the smithsonian associates and i would like to welcome all of you tonight to what promises to be a stimulating program on the union general, william t sherman s marched to the city. before we begin and i announce our speaker, would like to remind everyone to check their cell phones and make sure they are turned off. and also remind everyone that photos are prohibited during these programs. lastly, we are delighted to have c-span history channel filming tonight program. jeff shaara will take questions at the end of the program and we have microphon ....
associates hosted this 90-minute event. good evening, everyone. can everyone hear me well? good. i am mary maclachlan, you the program coordinator with the smithsonian associates and i would like to welcome all of you tonight to what promises to be a stimulating program on the union general, william t sherman s marched to the city. march to the sea. before we begin and i announce our speaker, would like to remind everyone to check their cell phones and make sure they are turned off. and also remind everyone that photos are prohibited during these programs. lastly, we are delighted to have c-span history channel filming tonight s program. jeff shaara will take questions at the end of the program and we have microphones so we can capture your questions. when you raise your hand, we will have event reps in the aisles of the auditorium and in the balcony and we will wait until you have a microphone in your hands. it is a pleasure to welcome our speaker, jeff shaara, bac ....
faculty of the prestigious lincoln leadership institute. he has three books to his credit including after gettysburg, lee retreats and another. he lives with his wife, chris. thank you. [applause] my wife kris is here in the audience tonight. welcome, everybody to the book talk about my latest book called after gettysburg. the great radio commentator always talked about the rest of the story, so this is kind of the rest of the story. a lot of people come here to learn about the three-day battle of gettysburg. we talked about that battle, but this book attempts to answer the question what happens after the three days are over? the story is pretty well known. the story after is not as well-known. you might remember the battle was a three-day battle on july 1, 2, and 3 just outside this building. 160,000 soldiers for three hot days, then there would 51,000 men dead, wounded, or missing. it was a bloodbath. it was a turning point in the civil war, and this is where abra ....