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)