Shoot the horses first: histories
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"Through a historian's lens and folkloric storytelling, the pieces in Shoot the horses first revel in the nuances, brutality, mythology, and tiny victories of our historical past. A launderer takes us inside the linens of the richest families in early Baltimore. A child on the Orphan Train has his teeth inspected like a horse. Civil War soldiers experience PTSD. While one woman lands on an island of the Wampanoag tribe, a woman 200 years later finds Apache in a harsh frontier. Children survive yellow fever, the desert heat, and mistaken identities; men survive severed fingers, untested medicines, and wives with obsessive compulsive disorders. Frederick Douglass' grandson plays violin at the World's Fair on Colored American Day, a woman with disabilities is kept hidden away like she doesn't exist, and a botanist is denied her place in a science journal because she is female. Themes of place, war, mental illness, identity, disability, feminism, and unyielding optimism throughout harrowing desperation resurface in this collection of stories that takes us back to time immemorial, yet feels so close, and all too familiar."--Back cover.
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Angstman, L. (2023). Shoot the horses first: histories. Hamilton, New York, Kernpunkt Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Angstman, Leah. 2023. Shoot the Horses First: Histories. Hamilton, New York, Kernpunkt Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Angstman, Leah, Shoot the Horses First: Histories. Hamilton, New York, Kernpunkt Press, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Angstman, Leah. Shoot the Horses First: Histories. Hamilton, New York, Kernpunkt Press, 2023.
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