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Adams, Peter. The Bowery Boys: Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion. Westport: Praeger, 2005.

Anbinder, Tyler. "Is Gangs of New York Historically Accurate?" Gotham Gazette 23 December 2002. http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/1380-is-gangs-of-new-york-historically-accurate

Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. New York: Free, 2001.

Ansen, David. Newsweek 14 January 2003.

Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. Garden City: Garden City Pub., 1928.

Baker, Kevin. "'You Have To Give A Sense Of What People Wanted'." American Heritage 52.8 (2001): 50-56.

Barnes, David M. The Draft Riots in New York. July, 1863 the Metropolitan Police, Their Services during Riot Week. Their Honorable Record. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1863.

Berardinelli, James. Review of Gangs of New York. ReelViews, 2002. http://www.reelviews.net/movies/g/gangs_ny.html

Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford UP, 1990.

Blackmar, Elizabeth. Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989.

Bordewich, Fergus M. "Manhattan Mayhem." Smithsonian 33.9 (December 2002): 44-54.

Brace, Charles Loring. The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work among Them. Washington: National Association of Social Workers, 1973.

Bradshaw, Peter. Review of Gangs of New York. The Guardian 9 January 2003. http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jan/10/artsfeatures2

Brown, Joshua. "The Gang's Not All Here." Common-Place 3.3 (2003). http://www.common-place.org/vox-pop/200304.shtml

Burgoyne, Robert. "Homeland or Promised Land? The Ethnic Construction of Nation in Gangs of New York." Film Nation: Hollywood Looks At U.S. History. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010.

Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

Casillo, Robert. Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2006.

Chamberlain, Ted. ""Gangs of New York": Fact vs. Fiction." National Geographic. National Geographic Society, 24 Mar. 2003. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0320_030320_oscars_gangs.html

Christie, Ian. "Manhattan Asylum." Sight And Sound 13.1 (2003): 20-23.

Cohen, P. C. "Unregulated Youth: Masculinity and Murder in the 1830s City." Radical History Review 1992.52 (1992): 33-52.

Conard, Mark T. The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2007.

Cook, Adrian. The Armies of the Streets; the New York City Draft Riots of 1863. Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1974.

Corliss, Richard. "Have a very Leo Noel: The Gangs of New York. Time 23 December 2002: 66-67.

Denby, David. "For the Love of Fighting." New Yorker 23 December 2002: 166-69. http://search.proquest.com/pqrl/docview/233142665/fulltext/140F0B47CEDD584E92/9?accountid=12043

Dickerson, Jacob. "Metonymy And Indexicality: People And Place In The Five Points." Rhetoric Review 31.4 (2012): 405-21.

DiGirolamo, Vincent. "'Such, Such Were The B'hoys …'." Radical History Review 90(2004): 123-41.

Domosh, Mona. Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York & Boston. New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.

“Draft Riot of 1863.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., 2013. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/170724/Draft-Riot-of-1863

Ebert, Roger, and Martin Scorsese. Scorsese by Ebert. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008.

Ebert, Roger. Review of Gangs of New York. 20 December 2002. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gangs-of-new-york-2002

Edelstein, David. "Let It Bleed." Slate 20 December 2002. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2002/12/let_it_bleed.html

Foster, George C. New York by Gaslight and Other Urban Sketches. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.

French, Philip. "Scorsese paints the town red." Guardian/Observer 11 January 2003. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/jan/12/philipfrench

Friedman, Lawrence S. The Cinema of Martin Scorsese. New York: Continuum, 1997.

Fry, James B. New York and the Conscription of 1863: A Chapter in the History of the Civil War. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1885.

Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1992.

Gopnik, Adam. article on Asbury in the New Yorker beore November 2002. recently in the New Yorker as 'a low-life character with a high-end purpose',

Grinspan, Jon. "America's Worst Immigration War." Americanheritage.com 4 November 2006.

Grist, Leighton. The films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.

Hoberman, J. "Vice City." Village Voice 17 December 2002. http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-12-17/film/vice-city/

Interview: Tyler Anbinder Discusses the Historical Accuracy of Martin Scorses'e New Film 'Gangs of New York'." All Things Considered 23 December 2002. http://search.proquest.com/pqrl/docview/190097296/fulltext/140F0B47CEDD584E92/3?accountid=12043

Keller, Lisa. The Triumph of Order: Democracy & Public Space in New York and London. New York: Columbia UP, 2009.

Keser, Robert. "The Bowery: Raoul Walsh's Gangs Of New York." Bright Lights Film Journal 39 (2003).

LaSalle, Mick. "Warring of the green: Scorsese gets his Irish up in 'Gangs of New York'." San Francisco Chronicle 20 December 2002. http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Warring-of-the-green-Scorsese-gets-his-Irish-up-2710477.php

Le Cain, Maximilian. "Orphans Of The Storm: Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York." Senses Of Cinema: An Online Film Journal 25 (2003).

Massood, Paula J. "From Mean Streets to The Gangs Of New York: Ethnicity and Urban Space in the Films Of Martin Scorsese." City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination. Ed. Murray Pomerance. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2007. 77-89.

McCrum, Robert. "Wanna be in our gang?" The Observer 23 November 2002. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/nov/24/history

McPherson, James M. Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Knopf, 1982.

Molony, Sinéad. "'The Blood Stays On The Blade': An Analysis Of Irish-American Masculinities In The Films Of Martin Scorsese." Irish Feminist Review 3(2007): 137-48.

Nathan, Daniel A., Peter Berg, and Erin Klemyk. "'The Truth Wrapped In A Package Of Lies': Hollywood, History, And Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York." Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film. Ed. Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 2007. 91-111.

Petrakis, John. "Mean Streets." Christian Century 18-31 December 2002: 40. http://search.proquest.com/pqrl/docview/217224760/fulltext/140F0B47CEDD584E92/12?accountid=12043

Pierce, Nev. Review of Gangs of New York. BBC 9 January 2003. http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/12/10/gangs_of_new_york_2003_review.shtml

Queenan, Joe. "Big bad apple." The Guardian 10 January 2003. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/jan/11/features.joequeenan

Rainer, Peter. "Old-World Charm." New York XXXXXXXX http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/reviews/n_8126/

Riis, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives. 1890. [Whitefish, Mont.]: Kessinger Pub., 2004.

Rommel-Ruiz, W. Bryan. American History Goes to the Movies. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Rutkowski, Alice. "Gender, Genre, Race, And Nation: The 1863 New York City Draft Riots." Studies In The Literary Imagination 40.2 (2007): 111-32.

Schecter, Barnet. The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America. New York: Walker, 2005.

Scherzer, Kenneth A. The Unbounded Community: Neighborhood Life and Social Structure in New York City, 1830-1875. Durham: Duke UP, 1992.

Schickel, Richard. Conversations With Scorsese. New York: Knopf, 2011.

Scorsese, Martin. Gangs of New York: Making the Movie. New York: Miramax Books, 2002.

Scott, A. O. "To Feel A City Seethe." New York Times 20 December 2002. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/20/movies/20GANG.html

Spann, Edward K. Gotham at War: New York City, 1860-1865. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2002.

Spann, Edward K. The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840-1857. New York: Columbia UP, 1981.

Srebnick, Amy Gilman. The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-century New York. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.

Stansell, Christine. "The Origins of the Sweatshop: Women and Early Industrialization in New York City." Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society. Ed. Michael F. Frisch and Daniel J. Walkowitz. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1983.

Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. New York: Knopf, 1986.

Stott, Richard Briggs. Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.

Taubin, Amy. "Gangs of New York." Film Comment January-February 2003.

Tepper, Craig. "Dickens, Griffith and Gangs Of New York: The Belatedness Of A Modern Epic." Film Journal 1.12 (2005).

Travers, Peter. Review of Gangs of New York. Rolling Stone 20 December 2002. http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/gangs-of-new-york-20021220

Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York. Discovery Channel. 2002

Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850. New York: Oxford UP, 1984.

Wu, Wanwen. "Gangs of New York: The Boss System/New York Draft Riots. History through Film. Ed. Eric Burnett. Raleigh: Lulu, 2008.

Yamin, Rebecca. "Five Points." Five Points. United States Global Services Administration, n.d. http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept