The inventor of punched cards, which led to the first computers and companies like IBM, was aiming to solve a gnarly problem at the time: data collection for the census. The U.S. Constitution requires ...

This collection of old newspaper headlines brings into focus the 1890 census feud between Minneapolis and St. Paul. This was an actual reprint of the headlines that appeared in a story by the ...

The U.S. Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been charged with political significance, and continues to be. That’s clear ...

Possiblity of a reconsideration of that part of the Johnson Immigration Bill which fixes as a basis for quotas the 1890 census, increases daily. It now appears that the House Immigration Committee has ...

On January 10, 1921 a fire in the basement of the Department of Commerce in downtown Washington, D.C., destroyed most of the 1890 census records. One reason the records could not be saved was that ...

The second day of the immigration discussion in the House was as heated and controversial as the first. The restrictionists and the opponents of the Johnson Bill stated and restated their arguments; ...

The US Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been charged with political significance, and continues to be. That’s clear ...

Unreadable microfilm, burned courthouses, misspelled names, spilled ink on your census page – these are just some of the calamities that face genealogists in their pursuit of family data. But there is ...

Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here’s how they have changed over the last 230 years. By K.K. Rebecca Lai and Jennifer Medina Oct. 16, 2023 Since 1790, ...