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Major funding for backstories provided by an anonymous donor, the National Endowment

for the Humanities and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.

For Virginia Humanities, this is Backstory.

Welcome to Backstory, the show that explores the history behind the headlines.

I'm Ed Ayers.

And I'm Joanne Freeman.

If you're new to the podcast, each week, along with our colleagues, Brian Ballot and Nathan

Conley, we explore a different aspect of American history.

Now, we're going to start the show with something very tiny.

In one of these, she called them the nutshell studies of unexplained death.

And in one of the nutshells, there's a woman who is drowned in a bathtub in a poor boarding

house room.

This is author and journalist Rachel Monroe.

You know, you might assume looking at it on the surface, oh, this woman, maybe she,

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