Study of The Alienist by Caleb Carr
    Gangs
   
Articles:  What Gangs Misses
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_1_14_03ws.html
   The Boweryhttp://www.thing.net/~lina/bowery.html
    Five Points - New York's Most Notorious Neighborhood
http://history1800s.about.com/od/urbanconditions/p/fivepointsnyc.htm
    Five Points:  New York's Irish Working Class in the 1850s
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/video/5ps.html
   The Five Points Site 
http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm
   HerbertAsbury - Gangs of New York
http://herbertasbury.com/GangsofNewYork/tabid/175/Default.aspx
 
History of Street Gangs in the United States
   A Journey Through Chinatown - A Neighborhood that was Five Points
http://www.nychinatown.org/history/1800s.html  
   
Urbanography - Where "The Gangs" Lived--New York's Five Points District
http://urbanography.com/5_points/index.html
http://urbanography.com/
   
New York History
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/index-flash.html
   

     Villians/Jack the Ripper
   
  Unsolved Mysteries
http://fayette.k12.in.us/~cbeard/mysteries/topics2.html
    Jack the Ripper Sites
 
Mrs. Boehmer - Jack the Ripper
 

 

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
http://www.imdb.com/

 
IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection Main Page
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Search this site for literary criticism on American and British authors and their work.
 
Slang/Jargon
    
   Alphadictionay.com
http://www.alphadictionary.com/slang/

   Language Help - Mrs. Boehmer (if setting in Europe)

   Film Jargon

http://www.learner.org/interactives/cinema/acting3.html

     Dictionary of British Slang
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm
 
     Encyclopedia Titanica
 

     Railroad Terms Glossary

    Buzz Words and Catch Phrases
A Glossary for Our Changing World

 
Last Modified on March 23, 2012