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ESSAY #1: IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK <Download as pdf>
Leisler’s Rebellion
(1689-91)
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Primary Sources:
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Secondary Sources
- David William Voorhees, “The "Fervent Zeale" Of Jacob Leisler,” William and Mary Quarterly 1994 51(3): 447-47
- Kees-Jan Waterman, “Leisler's Rebellion, 1689-1690: Being Dutch In Albany,” Maryland Historian 1991 22(2): 21-40
- Randall Balmer, “Traitors And Papists: The Religious Dimensions Of Leisler's Rebellion,” New York History 1989 70(4): 341-37
- John Murrin, “English Rights as Ethnic Aggression: The English Conquest, the Charter of Liberties of 1683, and Leisler’s Rebellion in New York,” in Authority and resistance in early New York, eds William Pencak and Conrad Edick Wright, 56-94
- Robert Ritchie, The Duke’s Province: A Study of New York Politics and Society, 1664-1691
- Thomas Archdeacon, New York City, 1664-1710
- Patricia Bonomi, A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York
- Joyce Goodfriend, Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York
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Great Negro Plot (1741)
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Primary Source:
- Daniel Horsmanden, The New-York conspiracy; or, A history of the Negro plot, with the Journal of the proceedings against the conspirators at New-York in the years 1741-2
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Secondary Sources:
- Jill Lepore, New York Burning
- Thomas Davis, A Rumor of Revolt: The ‘Great Negro Plot” in Colonial New York
- Serena Zabin, The New York conspiracy trials of 1741
- Peter Charles Hoffer, The Great New York Conspiracy Of 1741: Slavery, Crime, And Colonial Law
- Shane White, Somewhat More Independent
- Leslie Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery
- Ira Berlin and Leslie Harris, Slavery in New York
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The Battle for New York (1776) |
Primary Source:
- Kemble papers. Vol. 1 -- Journals of Lieut. Col. Stephen Kemble, 1773-1789; and British Army orders: Gen. Sir William Howe, 1775-1778; Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, 1778; and Gen. Daniel Jones, 1778. With a new introd. and pref. by George Athan Billias
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Secondary Sources:
- Barnet Schecter, The battle for New York: the city at the heart of the American Revolution
- Charles E. Heller & William A. Stofft, America's first battles, 1776-1965
- Phillip Papas, That ever loyal island: Staten Island and the American Revolution
- Joseph S. Tiedemann, Reluctant revolutionaries: New York City and the road to independence, 1763-1776
- David Hackett Fischer, Washington's crossing
- Howard H. Peckham, The War for Independence: a military history
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The African Company Performs (1821) |
Primary Sources:
- George C.D. Odell, Annals of the New York stage, vol 3 [34-7, 70-1, 224, 228, 293, 536, 594]
- George Thompson, A Documentary History of the African Theatre
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Secondary Sources
- Michael Warner et al, “A Soliloquy "Lately Spoken at the African Theatre": Race and the Public Sphere in New York City, 1821,” American Literature 73, 1 (2001)
- Marvin McAllister, “ ‘White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour”: A History of New York’s African Grove/African Theatre,” PhD dissertation (Northwestern University, 1997) <click on title or available through Proquest Dissertations > -- Book of same title on order
- Shane White, Stories of Freedom
- Jonathan Dewberry, “The African Grove Theatre & Company,” Black American Literature Forum 16 (1982): 128-31
- Shane White, Somewhat more Independent
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The
Murder of Helen Jewett (1836)
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Primary Source:
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Secondary Sources:
- Patricia Cline Cohen, The murder of Helen Jewett: the life and death of a prostitute in nineteenth-century New York
- Andie Tucher, Froth & scum: truth, beauty, goodness, and the ax murder in America's first mass medium
- David Anthony, "The Helen Jewett Panic: Tabloids, Men, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum New York," American Literature (Sept. 1997)
- James L. Crouthamel, Bennett's New York herald and the rise of the popular press
- Marilyn Hill, Their Sisters’ Keepers: prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870
- Timothy Gilfoyle, City of Eros
- Karen Halttunen, Confidence men and painted women: a study of middle-class culture in America, 1830-1870
- Thomas Augst, The clerk's tale: young men and moral life in nineteenth-century America.
- Richard B. Stott, Workers in the metropolis: class, ethnicity, and youth in antebellum New York City
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The Death of Mary Rogers (1841)
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- Amy Gilman Srebnick, The mysterious death of Mary Rogers : sex and culture in nineteenth-century New YorK
- Christine Stansell, City of Women
- James Mohr, Abortion in America
- Karen Halttunen, Confidence men and painted women: a study of middle-class culture in America, 1830-1870
- Thomas Augst, The clerk's tale: young men and moral life in nineteenth-century America.
- Richard B. Stott, Workers in the metropolis: class, ethnicity, and youth in antebellum New York City
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The Astor Place Riots (1849)
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Primary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
- Peter Buckley, “To the Opera House: Culture and Society in New York City, 1820-1860,” PhD Dissertation (SUNY-Stony Brook, 1984) <click on title or available through Proquest Dissertations >
- Dennis Berthold, “Class Acts: The Astor Place Riots and Melville’s “The Two Temples”,” American Literature 71.3 (1999) 429-461
- Kevin Baker, “The Riot That Remade a City, “ American Heritage (1999)
- Gretchen Sween, “Rituals, riots, rules, and rights: The Astor Place Theater Riot of 1849 and the evolving limits of free speech,” Texas Law Review (December 2002): 679-713
- John Kasson, Disciplining the Audience,” City Journal (excerpt from Rudeness & Civility)
- Bruce McConachie, Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society, 1820-1870, chapter 5
- Lawrence Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: the emergence of cultural hierarchy in America, chapter 1 (“William Shakespeare in America”)
- Alan Downer, Eminent tragedian: William Charles McCready
- David Grimsted, Melodrama unveiled: American theater and culture 1800-1850
- *Nigel Cliff, The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America -- on order – review http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n15/dobs01_.html
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The Civil War Draft Riots (1863)
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Primary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
- Ivor Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots
- JamesMcCague, The second rebellion; the story of the New York City draft riots of 1863.
- Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham
- Ernest McKay, The Civil War and New York City
- Shane White, Stories of Freedom
- Leslie Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery
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The NYPD under investigation
: The Lexow Committee (1894)
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Primary Source:
- Lexow Committee Report, New York City police corruption investigation commissions, 1894-1994, vol 1. edited with introductions by Gabriel J. Chi
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Secondary Sources:
- James Lardner and Thomas Reppetto, NYPD: a city and its police
- Timothy J. Gilfoyle, A Pickpocket's Tale: The underworld of nineteenth-century New York, chapter ??
- Marilynn Johnson, Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City
- Marcy Sacks, "To Show Who Was In Charge": Police Repression of New York City's Black Population at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Journal of Urban History 31, 6 (2005): 799-819
- Eric H. Monkkonen, Police in urban America, 1860-1920
- David C. Hammack, Power and society: Greater New York at the turn of the century
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