At head of title: Department of Commerce and Labor. U.S. Bureau of the Census. S.N.D. North, director Roster of heads of families in 1790, so far as can be shown from records of the Census Office. The ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

The population of the United States has grown almost 123 times since the first federal census was conducted after the Declaration of Independence.

Across the country as a whole, towns and cities of all sizes recorded population increases from 2023 to 2024. Growth was smallest in places with populations below 5000, which increased by an average ...

US President Trump will send letters to trade partners informing them about the level of tariffs.

The Thirteen British colonies that would become the first of the United States — Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, ...

Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census. President ...

Sitting on the reference stacks at the Charlie Clark Center for Local History at Arlington Central Library are five thick, ...

Researchers also must accept the way the surveys’ original designers operationalized various concepts. U.S. Census The United States’ decennial census, which enumerates the entire resident population, ...

In the winter of 1773, 29-year-old Dinah Nevil, a woman with Indigenous, African, and European ancestry, arrived in Philadelphia with her young children and made a remarkable claim — one that set her ...