July marks the 146th anniversary of one of the most violent and destructive moments in New York's history: the Civil War Draft riots. Working class New Yorkers, who couldn't afford the $300 charge to avoid conscription, rose up violently to oppose the war and the federal government. To me, this shows how separate from the rest of the country New York felt even then.
Check out this interesting article.
And here is an interesting lecture by John Chodes that's not to be missed:
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