{"podcast":{"title":"The Road to Now","slug":"the-road-to-now-1065183","podcast_index_feed_id":1065183,"rss_url":"https://roadtonow.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.theroadtonow.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/4/8/2/84823a80490190e9/RTN_Logo_Season_2.jpg","author":"Benjamin Sawyer","episode_count":460,"summary":"Bob Crawford (The Avett Brothers) & Dr. Ben Sawyer (MTSU History) share conversations with great thinkers from a variety of backgrounds – historians, artists, legal scholars, political figures and more –who help us uncover the many roads that run between past and present. For more information, visit TheRoadToNow.com If you'd like to support our work, join us on Patreon: Patreon.com/TheRoadToNow","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T12:20:49.072601+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-road-to-now-1065183"},"episode":{"title":"#368 Women & the Civil War Pension System w/ Kristin Jorgensen","slug":"368-women-the-civil-war-pension-system-w-kristin-jorgensen","published_at":"2026-05-11T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-road-to-now-1065183/368-women-the-civil-war-pension-system-w-kristin-jorgensen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-road-to-now-1065183","url":"https://rtnpod.me/368","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/roadtonow/368_for_feed.mp3?dest-id=384142","summary":"The Civil War was the bloodiest military engagement in American history, and for the wives of those killed or wounded in battle, the struggle for survival continued long after the shooting ceased in 1865. In this episode we speak with longtime friend of the show Kristin Jorgensen about her recently-defended MA thesis, \"From Private Misfortune to Public Entitlement: Rural New York Widows and the Civil War Pension System\" which tells the story of how the Federal benefits offered to the wives of Union soldiers helped transform women's roles in American politics and society. To find out more about Kristin's work, you can follow her on linkedin or check out her business Pastward at PastwardHistory.com . This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer.","meta_description":"The Civil War was the bloodiest military engagement in American history, and for the wives of those killed or wounded in battle, the struggle for survival…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3321,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-road-to-now-1065183/episodes/368-women-the-civil-war-pension-system-w-kristin-jorgensen/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-road-to-now-1065183/368-women-the-civil-war-pension-system-w-kristin-jorgensen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}