This video is a historical review of the 2002 Martin Scorcese film, Gangs of New York. It goes over the historical inspiration behind the film and evaluates where it is accurate and where it fudged the timeline a bit. It covers the Five Points in New York City, gang violence in 19th century New York, the Irish experience in the United States as immigrants, the Draft Riots of 1863 and race, and corruption and the Tammany Hall Democratic political machine.

The script should refer to the book "Gangs of New York" as "non-fiction book." This was a scripting error.

Special thanks to my Patrons and Irish Thunder for being the executive producer of this episode!

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Sources and References:

http://www.nychinatown.org/history/ph...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c...

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...

Herbert Asbury - The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld

https://daily.jstor.org/race-and-labo...

Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
By Paul Boyer

Five Points & Nineteenth Century New York with Tyler Anbinder -
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Mary Ryan - Civic Wars

Noel Ignatiev - How the Irish Became White