Most of the movie takes place in New York during 1863 when one of the worst riots in American history took place. The fact that this really did happen gave the movie a realistic fool especially the location where they chose to have this film take place giving audiences a look at what it...
Justice, B. 2003. Historical fiction to historical fact: Gangs of New York and the whitewashing of history. Social Education 67 (4): 213- 215.Justice, B. 2003. Historical fiction to histor- ical fact: Gangs of New York and the whitewashing of history. Social Education 67 (4): 213....
I notice that as time passes, so do the entries and understandable due to the fact that ex gang members of our era are in or near our eighties or gone. Yet a new crew grows all the time but these days it is not about turf but about drugs. To add to todays fire, the streets ar...
Glasgow: City of Gangs A new history by Andrew Davies ‘Hitler’ in the Garngad During the mid-1930s the arrival of a new police constable caused consternation in Glasgow’s Garngad district. At six feet two, and sixteen stone, P.C. James Robertson was a giant compared to most of the...
(who is gay) wrote bothTake a Lesbian to LunchandDinky Hocker Shoots Smack, the latter becoming an early classic of young adult fiction. (Nobody shoots smack in the novel. Deceptive titles are a pulp fiction staple; if the content itself was found “questionable,” the post office found ...
Most of our knowledge of early Chinatown comes from newspapers, especially the major New York dailies, which provide a serviceable chronology. But their coverage was the work of white journalists who relied on Chinese informants for their stories. They couldn‘t always distinguish fact from fiction...