Marjorie Taylor Greene's Trump-backed proposal to conduct a new census and redraw congressional districts is clearly ...

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

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 ...

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

Collection 1790_census; microfilm; americana; us_census; genealogy; additional_collections Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Language english-handwritten Volume Reel 0003 - 1790 ...

According to data from the 1790 United States Census, Middleboro had a population of 4,526, which meant it was 16th largest settlement in the United States at the time.

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 ...

To its credit, the Census has trended toward greater specificity and opportunities for self-identification since its first iteration in 1790.

Now, under changes to the U.S. census, people from the Middle East or North Africa — the MENA region — will finally be able to check off their own race and ethnicity category.

Since 1790, the decennial census has played a crucial role in creating and reshaping the ever-changing views of racial and ethnic identity in the United States.

The Census of 1790 recorded the population of the entire United States as of August 2, 1790, and it has been taken every ten years since this date. This first census documented the population to ...

(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images, left; Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) Census forms in the United States don’t ask about religion, but relatively few U.S. adults ...