#155 Uncivil Christmas w/ Carson Hudson
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In our final episode of 2019, Bob & Ben speak w/ historian Carson Hudson, whose program "Uncivil Christmas" tells of life in Williamsburg, Virginia during the years of the Civil War. Carson explains the politics and culture of the era, the major role that music played in uniting (and dividing) Americans during the war, the challenges of understanding how people in the past experienced war, and the ways that the Civil War still looms large in American culture today.
Carson Hudson is Educational Program Developer at Colonial Williamsburg and a specialist in the history of war and music history. He is the author of multiple books on Williamsburg history, including Hidden History of Civil War Williamsburg (The History Press, 2019). To attend one of Carson's site tours, visit www.Colonial Williamsburg.com.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher. A special thanks to Melanie Crawford for encouraging us to interview Carson on RTN.
The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network. For more on our podcast, visit our website: www.TheRoadToNow.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Siders. |
| 0:04.2 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Brian Saxon. |
| 0:06.2 | And I'm Michael Shields, and we are the host of Welcome to the Party Pal, the mind-bending film and television podcast you didn't know you needed. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome to the Party Pal is a celebration of the art of cinema and filmmaking, where movies and television shows are deconstructed and analyzed to evaluate their |
| 0:21.3 | grander. Guests will include the filmmakers and industry insiders that craft the works of art |
| 0:26.5 | that we celebrate here when you join the party. Welcome to the party pal is part of the |
| 0:30.8 | Osiris Podcast Network. I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the Road to Now's 2019 final episode of a great year. |
| 0:51.7 | You know, Ben, we made it. |
| 0:53.8 | We made it through the year. It was, you know, it was made it through the year it was uh you know it was long i mean |
| 0:58.1 | it was 365 days yeah just wait until next year yeah 366 i hear it's going to be really long |
| 1:06.2 | it was a great year though it was how many shows we did this year? |
| 1:12.9 | You and I, like episodes of Road to Now? |
| 1:15.5 | Episodes of the Road to Now. |
| 1:18.6 | 40 some, probably. |
| 1:20.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.1 | That's a lot. |
| 1:23.2 | We do a lot of shows. |
| 1:24.1 | We came up being like, let's take a week off, and then we just didn't. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, we were lucky to come upon great guests and we're ending the year. |
| 1:33.4 | I feel like today's guest is the cherry on top of the cake. |
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