GENERAL

"Tyler Anbinder Discusses the Historical Accuracy of Martin Scorsese's New Film 'Gangs of New York,'" History News Network, December 23, 2002 (NPR interview).

Maureen Dezell, "Film Captures the Feeling But Not the Facts of Life in Five Points," Boston Globe, December 20, 2002.

Vincent DiGirolamo" Such, Such Were the B'hoys" Radical History Review (90) 2004.

Pete Hamill, "Trampling City's History: 'Gangs' Misses Point of Five Points," New York Daily News, December 14, 2002.

David Hinckley, "New York's Nastiest," New York Daily News, December 8, 2002.

Robert W. Snyder, "Gangs of New York Gets New York City Wrong," openDemocracy, January 15, 2003.

DRAFT RIOTS

"History Lesson: Author and Civil War-era Expert Iver Bernstein on the Inaccuracies in Martin Scorsese’s ‘Gangs of New York,’" Newsweek.Com, January 10, 2003.

Wil Haygood, "The Battle of Old New York: Scorsese Movie Sheds Light on a Dark Period in U.S. History," Washington Post, January 4, 2003.

GANGS

Joshua Brown, "The Bloody Sixth: The Real Gangs of New York," London Review of Books, 25:2 January 23, 2002.

Dan Vergano, "The 'Gangs' All Here on a New York Tour," USA Today, December 3, 2002.

WHAT HISTORIANS HAVE TO SAY

From Ken Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University; Editor, The Encyclopedia of New York City:

"On Gangs of New York, I spoke with Professor Eric Monkonnen of UCLA, the expert of violence in NYC in history, and he said that in the entire year of 1846, there were only ten homicides in New York. In the gang fight at the beginning of the movie, there seemed to be dozens of dead bodies on the field of combat."