The US Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been charged with political significance, and continues to be. That’s clear ...

FRESNO, Calif. This is what the census form looked like in 1860 when the first census was conducted in the newly incorporated Fresno County. "There were 4623 people within the county boundaries in ...

Alabama was a sparsely populated wilderness by the time the first census was taken of the territory in 1800. The long parade of Census numbers since then spins intriguing stories of yearning, tragedy, ...

The 1810 federal census was very similar to the census of 1800. It had the same age and gender categories as the 1800 census for household members. For both white males and white females, the ...