Uncivil Christmas: The Civil War & Christmas in Williamsburg w/ Carson Hudson
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
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 is a rebroadcast of episode #155, which originally aired on December 23, 2019. The original episode was edited by Gary Fletcher. This reair was edited by Ben Sawyer.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now. |
| 0:09.7 | Guys, today it's the holidays, and we are sharing this episode from 2019. |
| 0:16.2 | It is our conversation with Carson Hudson called Uncivil Christmas. |
| 0:20.2 | It's about the Civil War and |
| 0:22.5 | Christmas time in Colonial Williamsburg. Bob and I are taking a few weeks off, getting ready for |
| 0:27.8 | the new year. And what's more to say? Thanks to everyone who's supporting us. Thanks for listening. |
| 0:33.8 | We are now on Sirius XM Channel 124 on the weekends, which was a great, great step for us. |
| 0:40.4 | And we're just really grateful to everyone who supported us to get us there and to the good people at Sirius for bringing us on board. |
| 0:46.8 | And especially thanks to our patrons, I can't say this enough. |
| 0:50.2 | You have kept us going all these years and we are grateful. |
| 0:52.8 | We hope you all have a great holiday season, safe travels, and happy holidays. |
| 0:58.9 | Take care. |
| 1:02.3 | Carson Hudson, welcome to The Road to Now. |
| 1:05.7 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:06.7 | Thank you, boss. |
| 1:07.7 | Carson, I had the great privilege a couple weekends ago of attending a program that you offer at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. |
| 1:18.0 | And it was something my wife found on the calendar. |
| 1:20.9 | We went there for the weekend for her birthday. |
| 1:23.3 | And she found this program called Uncivilized Christmas. |
| 1:27.3 | And it was a joy, well, a pleasure. |
| 1:30.7 | And it was a joy, even though the subject matter is not always joyful. |
| 1:35.0 | But I'm just so thankful I got to attend. |
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