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 ...

1890: The U.S. Census Bureau uses a tabulating machine for the first time. Freed of the laborious process of hand-sorting its data, the bureau is able to produce a complete census within two years.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been ...

1890 - As part of its series of analytical publications reporting results from the 1890 census, the Census Bureau issued a report about the western frontier. Since the first census in 1790, each ...

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 ...

As genealogists eagerly await release of the U.S. Census of 1950 (due out in April, 2022), let’s take another of our occasional looks at a key census of the past. Today, we’ll examine the “vanished” ...

In April, the Supreme Court began to hear arguments about one of the central requirements of the Constitution. It’s right there, in Article I, Section 2, clause 3: For a government of the people to ...

“I am incensed,” Mayor Douglas Gunn responded on Saturday when the census figure of 15,700 for San Diego was mentioned. “I shall write to the census authorities and the Secretary of Interior demanding ...

1890: The U.S. Census Bureau uses a tabulating machine for the first time. Freed of the laborious process of hand-sorting its data, the bureau is able to produce a complete census within two years.