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 ...

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 ...

The 1920 census revealed that fewer than a quarter of Washington’s residents were actually born in Washington. A total of 311,970 of Washington’s 1,356,316 residents were born in the state. Most of ...

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 ...

Some Census watchers are worried that underfunding the 2020 Census will lead to a disaster similar to the 1920 Census, after which Congress refused to reapportion seats for the first time in history.

At about 10:30 Thursday evening, just as Fred J. Murphy, secretary of the company was driving into town on a return trip from Denver, he discovered a blaze near the sawmill. He hurried to give the ...

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 ...

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 ...