In a stroke of historical irony, this year’s potential for a botched decennial census comes on the 100th anniversary of the 1920 census — the only census that Congress rejected outright by refusing to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We all await the results of the 2020 census,” Price writes, “but it’s also interesting to look back 100 years ago to see what the 1920 census told us about Texas.” In the same message, she forwarded ...

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 ...

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 ...

In March 1920, Harry Taylor, longtime editor of the Portsmouth Times, was furious at Chillicothe City Council. The newspaper man’s rage, on the surface at least, had been triggered by a ...

The United States Census of 2020, just officially completed last week, will likely go down in history as one that posed great difficulty for the enumerators. The year saw the worst pandemic in a ...