In 1790, the U.S. population was about 3.9 million, and the largest cities were New York, Philadelphia and Boston. The total population, according to the 2000 census, was about 281.4 million.

The Supreme Court assembled for the first time on this day in history, Feb. 1, 1790, in New York City under Chief Justice John Jay. It handed down its first opinion in August 1791.

United States, 1790 Obverse Image: Designs on the left hand side of note. Obverse Text: CASHIER OF THE BANK, PAY TO [NEEDS TRANSLATION] OR BEARER, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS PAPER. / NEW-YORK, THE 27TH DAY OF ...

Justin Madron details how he and his colleagues iterated through approaches to bring this history to life in an impactful and intuitive way.

On this day in 1790, President George Washington signed into law the Residence Act, which granted him the power to choose a new site for a capital of the United States of America on the east bank ...

On this day in 1790, the second session of the first Congress approved the new nation’s initial effort to codify the rules under which foreign-born persons could become U.S. citizens.

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Raymond Pearl, Lowell J. Reed, On the Rate of Growth of the Population of the United States Since 1790 and its Mathematical Representation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the ...