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The New York City Civil War Draft Riot Claims Collection


New York City Civil War Draft Riot claims | NYCMA Collection Guides

Abstract. The New York City Civil War Draft Riot, July 13-16, 1863, consisted of four days of mob violence by members of the white working class who blamed ...

The New York City Civil War Draft Riot Claims Collection

Claim made by Ann Garvey for the death of her husband during the riots. Draft Riot Collection. NYC Municipal Archives. The Draft Riots and Draft ...

Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 | NYCMA Collection Guides

Abstract: The New York City Civil War Draft Riot, July 13-16, 1863, consisted of four days of mob violence by members of the white working class who blamed ...

The New York City Draft Riots of 1863

On Monday, July 13, 1863, between 6 and 7 A.M., the five days of mayhem and bloodshed that would be known as the Civil War Draft Riots began. The rioters ...

Draft riot damage checks from the Broadway Bank, New York City

At the Institute's core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. ... Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877. Subjects.

1863 New York City Draft Riots - YouTube

City University of New York professor emeritus Joshua Brown teaches a class on the 1863 New York City Draft Riots and Civil War newspapers.

July 13, 1863: New York City Draft Riots and Massacre

We share a teaching activity that helps students explore what Howard Zinn described as the most destructive period of civil violence in US history.

The New York City Draft Riots (July 13, 1863) - YouTube

Join this channel to support Civil War storytelling and to get perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdFCa_7HtbBOINg7aZ419ig/join Far too ...

New York City Draft Riot - Special Collections & University Archives

Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Types of material. Letters (Correspondence). Related collections: Civil War.

Nast and the New York Draft Riots of 1863

The Draft Riots of 1863 was a public reaction to the United States Congress enactment of legislation to resupply dwindling Civil War volunteers.

After the Riots: New York's Black Community Responds and Rebuilds

From the initial attack on the draft offices at 3rd Avenue and 47th Street, the mob violence became a racist massacre. White-working class New Yorkers, both ...

American Civil War — Blog - For The Record

“The Draft Riots of New York, July 1863,” from The Diary of George Templeton Strong, NYC Municipal Library. The Library's collection of these papers has a gap ...

The Draft and the Draft Riots of 1863 - Bill of Rights Institute

The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005. Download. Save to My Library Share.

Northern Racism and the New York City Draft Riot - UMBC

School textbooks usually give students an overview of Southern racial attitudes during the Civil War era, but rarely do they explore the complex racial.

An Eyewitness Account of the New York Draft Riots, July, 1863 - jstor

the Civil War (New York, 1953), 238-46. See also the brief statement in Dudley P. Cornish, The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army (New York, 1956), 253.

Draft Riot of 1863 | New York City, African Americans, Civil War

Draft Riot of 1863, major four-day eruption of violence in New York City resulting from deep worker discontent with the inequities of ...

New York City Draft Riots - The Lincoln Memorial Shrine

Conscription was especially unpopular in New York City. The war had never been popular, particularly after Lincoln's January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation ...

Did Firefighters Start or End 1863 Draft Riots — or Both?

... and class division that had simmered for years in New York City. This claim appears to have taken hold more than two decades after the ...

1863 New York City Draft Riots | June 14, 2011 | C-SPAN.org

Harold Holzer moderated a discussion of New York City's only "Civil War Battle," the 1863 Draft Riot. In the summer of 1863, riots erupted ...

The 1863 draft riots and the birth of the New York City Police

On July 13, 1863, during the Civil War, New York City burst into flames when the federal government started a draft. Residents, especially ...