Monthly Archives: February 2011
Remedy for Poverty
Ever wondered how the need for an increased police force intensified? Or how cities gained the access to “a more liberal use of water (Chudacoff, 55)? Or maybe even how public education evolved and expanded? Due to the rapid increase … Continue reading
Assignment due 3/2
• Reading: –Homberger: read all; Rosenzweig, Introduction only (chapter 1 optional); Riess, Introduction only; Kasson, introduction only •Website: –http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/home.html. Spend at least 20 minutes exploring this site. I encourage you to participate in the game there (by choosing “Who Burned … Continue reading
Getting to the source
A majority of Tyler Anbinder’s sources are primary sources, he backs up his informations and arguments with documents like newspaper quotes, first hand account stories, and letters. 1. Times,1855 New York census; [James D. Bum],1865), 5-6.July I, 1859; Tribune, … Continue reading
Sounds nice but was you actually there?
The New York transcript gave a coverage of the “anti-aborlition riot on July 14,1834″(pg10). I sight this as a secondary source becasue even through it was written about an event that took place I am not to sure if the writer … Continue reading
Opinioned sources on Five Points- Lack of “Penance” or “Patronage”?
Church Monthly, March 1858, (as quoted in Monthly Record of the Five Points House of Industry 2, June 1858, pgs 34-35. “The most notorious precinct of moral leprosy in the city, … a perfect hot-bed of physical and moral pestilence, … Continue reading
No Wandering Around After Dark….
The image below is a picture taken from Tyler Anbinder’s Five Points. This is a primary source being that this was taken by someone at that moment witnessing whatever was occurring. This clearly is a reliable source because someone was … Continue reading
The Five Points of Squaller
First source: Here, Anbinder discusses the demographic and how it brought in the lowest per capita income due to the melting pot of immigrants and uses Carol Gronemans “The ‘Bloody Ould Sixth’ : A Social Analysis of a New York … Continue reading
The primary source ….
If the Revolution period and civil ware are the shifting points an American history , Tyler Anbinder introduced “five points” as another shifting point in New York city history because this area contained such multicultural clashes between the ethnic groups … Continue reading
Source it Out!
Typically portrayed in a negative light by many historians of its time, Five Points, modern day New York City’s Chinatown, is shown in its true essence in Tyler Anbinder’s detailed account of the infamous 19th Century neighborhood describing the many … Continue reading
O RLY? Where did you get that from?!
Tyler Anbinder’s “Five Points” describes the notorious 19th century slum city, of where we live today. The book gives you a understatement perspective of life in the “Five Points.” It illustrates the impact of immigrants in the neighborhood, and how … Continue reading