Annotated Bibliography
1) An Eyewitness Account of the New York Draft Riots, July, 1863
Author(s): A. Hunter Dupree, Leslie H. Fishel and Jr.
Source: The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Dec., 1960), pp. 472-479
Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of Organization of American Historians
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1888878
This source provided me with a first hand primary account of someone who had actually witnessed the New York Draft Riots in 1863. It was interesting to attain perspective from someone who had to live through it in that area of the Bowery itself.
2) Civil War Home, Website: http://www.civilwarhome.com/draftriots.htm
This website informed me about the draft riots in relation to the American Civil War.
3) Daily Mail Co, Website: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3778298/The-gang-wars-left-New-York-littered-bodies-Mafia-s-Five-Families-ruled-tit-tat-Tong-wars-brought-bloody-dressed-terror-Chinatown.html
This website described vivid and visual accounts of the Tong Wars in the Bowery.
4) Eric Foner (1988). Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, The New American Nation series, pp. 32–33, New York: Harper & Row; ISBN 0-06-093716-5 (updated ed. 2014, ISBN 978-0062354518).
5) Five Points Manhattan,Website, “Wikipedia”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan#cite_note-1
This website introduced the Five Points in the Bowery.
6) Herbert Asbury, Gangs Of New York (An Informal History of the Underworld), (New York, NY: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2001) 19.
This book is almost the perfect secondary source amongst other sources I have found. It covers an overview and an objective perspective on the early gangs of the bowery and five points. It also covers the Dead Rabbit Riots, The Draft Riots and the Tong Wars, which consists of Chinese gangs. The book is also very descriptive in terms of the way these gang members dressed in order to show their community, depiction of allies, and the weapons they used to intimidate. It also has an in-depth description of how the gang members came about, how they split and eventually evolved to contribute to what becomes of the Bowery today.
7) The Bowery Boys (Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion)
By Peter Adams, 2005, Praeger Publishers
This book informed me of the Bowery Boys and the cultural social dynamics that was present in the gang. It discusses their lifestyles and morals, as well as their place in society.
8) The First Slum in America, The New York Times, Kevin Baker. September 30, 2001
This article talks about the origin of the Five Points in the Bowery.
9) Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York’s Chinatown
By Scott D. Seligman
Tong wars was a very in-depth explanation of how the Tongs came about. It also discussed their roles in society, and how the traditional chinese upbringing influences the leadership of the Chinese gangs.
Zelenko, Michael. “The Tongs of Chinatown – FoundSF.” FoundSF. http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Tongs_of_Chinatown (accessed December 3, 2012).
This website explains more about where exactly the Tong wars was situated in the Bowery.
