Multimedia Collection
Order and Disorder (1825 - 1865)
(New York series)
VHS
120 minutes
F128.3 .N5631 1999 v.2
The second episode chronicles the rise of New York from merchant city to industrial metropolis as the commercial revolution triggered by the Erie Canal transforms every aspect of life in the city. As the immigrant population explodes and social problems of every kind emerge on the streets of Manhattan, the outlines of a modern mass metropolis begin to appear - including imaginative visions of the city's future, from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park. By 1860, every tension in America can be felt on the streets of New York, now the most powerful - and divided - city in the nation. The episode comes to a stunning climax during the Civil War, as the worst civil disturbance in the nation's history breaks out in New York: the catastrophic Draft Riots of 1963.
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