history homework

In The Ring Under London Prize Ring Rules

• London Prize Ring Rules 1838

• The rituals of prize fighting

• The very thin line between prize fighting and

“real world” urban violence

• Prize fighting vs. “sparring”

Fights and Fighters of Note

• Lilly vs. McCoy 1842, “The Battle of

Hastings”

• Hyer vs. Sullivan 1849, “The Great $10,000

Match”

• Sullivan vs. Morrissey 1853

• Morrissey vs. Heenan 1858

Prize Fighting and Urban Politics

• John “Old Smoke”

Morrissey and Tammany

Hall

• Universal manhood

suffrage and the daily

business of urban politics

• Fire companies and other

forms of public joining

Advice About Module 4 Sources

The Manly Art

The American Fistiana

Horace Greeley’s anti-boxing editorial