Behind the Scenes Minis: The Apostrophe and the Rich Guy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Tracy talks about a book that she didn't use for research on Viola Roseboro'. Holly talks about how wealth inequality has shaped science history.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.4	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:15.9	Hello and happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:18.7	And I'm Holly Fry.
0:20.3	This week on the show we talked about
0:22.1	Vila Roseboro. Oh, yeah. I, it was really that apostrophe that caught my attention at the end of her
0:29.4	name that made me go, why is that spelled that way?
0:34.0	Fiona, what are you doing? I had one specific difficulty with research for this,
0:40.2	which is that as we alluded to,
0:43.2	there is one book-length biography that I know of, of her.
0:49.0	Oh, yeah.
0:50.2	One.
0:51.1	It is by Jane Kirkland Graham, someone I could find no information about other than the fact that she wrote this biography of Villa Rosebro.
1:05.1	It was published in 1955.
1:08.0	It is more than 600 pages long.
1:11.8	Whoa.
1:13.1	That's a minutia biography.
1:15.1	That's a lot.
1:16.1	And it is two volumes published under one cover.
1:20.6	So sometimes I can find, when there are obscure books like this, I do have access to a lot of different libraries.
1:30.4	And sometimes when there's something pretty obscure,
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