New York, 1825-1865: Order and Disorder

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This episode of New York: A Documentary Film details New York's enormous growth as a booming commercial center and multi-ethnic port, and the mounting tensions that set the stage for the nation's bloodiest riot. Filmmaker Ric Burns examines how New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German and Irish immigration turned the city into one of the world's most complex urban environments, bringing with it a host of new social problems. The program reveals how the city's artists, innovators and leaders, from poet Walt Whitman to Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux (the designers of Central Park) grappled with the city's growing conflicts - which culminated in the catastrophic Civil War Draft Riots of 1863
The Great Experiment (1:39)
Manhattan (2:26)
Rapid Change Threatens Order (1:37)
Erie Canal (2:17)
Lower Manhattan - Commercial District (1:43)
New York Vortex (1:18)
Illustrious New Yorkers (3:29)
Penny Papers (2:09)
Role of Newspapers (2:29)
The American Museum (4:35)
Immigrants (3:08)
Potato Famine and Mass Migration (2:20)
Irish Versus Black (2:19)
Attempt at Assimilation (2:18)
1850s Riots (2:01)
Tammany Hall (0:52)
State Versus City Police (1:11)
Description of "Celtic" Temperment (1:15)
Walt Whitman (3:43)
New York and Whitman's Style (1:55)
Whitman's Optimism (1:57)
Whitman and Sexuality (2:23)
Whitman's Poetry (1:51)
Financial Panic (2:38)
Need for Park Space (2:25)
Central Park (2:46)
Public Works and Economic Despair (1:13)
Art and Nature (2:17)
Ideals of Central Park (2:00)
Park for the Rich (3:19)
Lincoln Campaigns in New York (3:45)
New York City Considers Secession (2:05)
New York Supports the North (2:27)
Civil War New York (1:27)
Anger with War and Draft (2:28)
Buildup to Civil War Draft Riots of 1863 (2:42)
Irish in Civil War Draft Riots of 1863 (2:34)
Damage in Civil War Draft Riots (2:18)
Targets of Civil War Draft Riots (1:39)
Civil War Draft Riots Consume Black Orphanage (1:33)
Nightfall During Civil War Draft Riots (2:50)
Lynching During Civil War Draft Riots of 1863 (1:32)
Union Troops Quell Civil War Draft Riots (1:51)
Toll of Civil War Draft Riots (1:42)
Reflecting on the Civil War Draft Riots (2:23)
Blacks Leave the City (1:01)
Expanding Vision for New York (2:14)
Irish, the Draft and Politics (1:11)
New York's Response to Lincoln's Assassination (3:42)
Additional Resources, Sponsors & Credits: New York, 1825-1865: Order and Disorder (3:59)

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