Primary Sources

Barnes, David M., The Draft Riots of New York, July, 1863 (Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 2009 – reprint of 1863 edition)

Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York (1863)

Secondary Sources

Baruch College, “A City Grows Around Us: Highlights from the Durst Old York Collection.” Online exhibition.

Dupree, A. Hunter and Fishel, Jr., Leslie H. “An Eyewitness Account of the New York Draft Riots, July, 1863,” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, (Dec. 1960, Vol. 47, No. 3) pp. 472-47

Ephemeral New York, “A Lynching on a Greenwich Village Street in 1863.”  Web site of New York historical sites.

Joyce, Toby, “The New York Draft Riots of 1863: An Irish Civil War?” History Ireland, Summer, 2003, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 22-27

Strausbaugh, John, “White Riot: Why the New York Draft Riots of 1863 Matter Today,” The Observer,  July 11, 2016

Strausbaugh is the author of “City of Sedition: The History of New York During the Civil War.“

Additional Reading

Bernstein, Iver, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War, (Oxford University Press, 1991)

Cook, Adrian, The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863, (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014)

Harris, Leslie M., In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626 – 1863 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002)
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html&title=The+New+York+City+Draft+Riots+of+1863&desc=

The chapter titled “The New York City Draft Riots of 1863” provides historical context and additional details on the lead-up to the draft riots and the effects of the riots on the African-American community in New York City at the time from this broader survey of African-American history.