Review Essay: Tall Tales but True?

and Rebecca Yamin , “New York’s Mythic Slum: Digging Lower Manhattan’s Infamous Five Points,” Archaeology 50 (1998): 44-53.

Rebecca Yamin, ed., “Becoming New York: The Five Points Neighborhood,” Historical Archaeology 35, special issue (2001): 1-135.

Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall , Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City (New Haven, Conn., 2001).

See Timothy Gilfoyle , “Scorsese’s Gangs of New York: Why Myth Matters,” Journal of Urban History 29 (July 2003): 620-630.

Alan Mayne , “On the Edge of History,” Journal of Urban History 26 (January 2000): 249-258.

Alan Mayne and Susan Lawrence , “Ethnographies of Place: A New Urban History Research Agenda,” Urban History 26 (December 1999): 325-348.

Robert Fitts , “The Rhetoric of Reform: The Five Points Missions and the Cult of Domesticity,” Historical Archaeology 35 (2001): 129-129.

Ellen Ross , “Slum Journeys: Ladies and London Poverty 1860-1940,” in Mayne and Murray, The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes, 11-11.

See Alan Mayne , The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870-1914 (Leicester, UK, 1993).

H. J. Dyos , “The Slums of Victorian London,” Victorian Studies 11 (1967): 5-40.

Anthony S. Wohl , “Social Explorations among the London Poor: Theatre or Laboratory?” Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique 6 (1991): 76-97.

See Sam Bass Warner Jr. ’s overlooked piece, “The Management of Multiple Urban Images,” in The Pursuit of Urban History, ed. Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe (London, 1983), 383-394.

See Robert E. Park and Herbert A. Miller , Old World Traits Transplanted (1921; reprint, New York, 1969).

Fitts , “The Rhetoric of Reform,” 129-129.

See Ross , “Slum Journeys,” 12-13.

Yamin , “Becoming New York,” 2-2.

Diana Wall , “Afterword: Becoming New York: The Five Points Neighborhood,” Historical Archaeology 35 (2001): 134-134.

Yamin , “Becoming New York,” 1-1.

and Cantwell and Wall , Unearthing Gotham, 218-218.

Adrian Praetzellis and Mary Praetzellis , “More than ‘Just a Place to Start From’: Historical Archaeologies of West Oakland,” in Putting the “There” There: Historical Archaeologies of West Oakland, ed. Mary Praetzellis and Adrian Praetzellis (Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, 2005), 11-11, http://www.sonoma.edu/asc.

and Praetzellis and Praetzellis , Putting the “There” There.

Mary Beaudry , Lauren Cook , and Stephen Mrozowski , “Artefacts and Active Voices: Material Culture as Social Discourse,” in The Archaeology of Inequality: Material Culture, Domination and Resistance, ed. Randall McGuire and Robert Paynter (Oxford, 1991), 150-191.

Wall , “Afterword,” 133-133.

and James Deetz , “Foreword,” in Anne E. Yentsch, A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology (Cambridge, 1994), xix-xix.

Robert Darnton , The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York, 1984), 4-4.

Praetzellis and Praetzellis, “More than ‘Just a Place to Start From,’ ” 3.

Yentsch , A Chesapeake Family, 330-330.

See also Yamin , “Lurid Tales and Homely Stories,” 74-85.

Yamin , “Alternative Narratives,” 154-154.