The United States Census of 2020, just officially completed last week, will likely go down in history as one that posed great difficulty for the enumerators. The year saw the worst pandemic in a ...

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On Tuesday, President Trump signed a memorandum — sure to be challenged in court as violating the Constitution — intended to bar undocumented immigrants from being counted for congressional ...

May 16—One hundred years ago, the 1920 census showed Tennessee had more males than females, had a decreasing Black population and relatively few people born south of the country's border, and was a ...

Spokane’s boosters were breathing a sigh of relief after more than 200 names were added to Spokane’s 1920 census, thus putting the 1920 population slightly above the 1910 number. This was mostly a ...

“We all await the results of the 2020 census,” Price writes, “but it’s also interesting to look back 100 years ago to see what the 1920 census told us about Texas.” In the same message, she forwarded ...

At about 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 10, 1921, James Foster, night watchman at the Commerce Department building in Washington D.C., was making his rounds on the upper floors of the 11-story building when ...

In March 1920, Harry Taylor, longtime editor of the Portsmouth Times, was furious at Chillicothe City Council. The newspaper man’s rage, on the surface at least, had been triggered by a ...

Note: This data was obtained through a query of the digitized federal census for 1920. By 1920, of all the major immigrant groups in Lowell, the Portuguese, comprising the sixth largest foreign-born ...

Censuses date back to the mid-18th century when the majority of western countries started keeping detailed records of their populations to assist with planning for the future. The first U.S. census ...