A mere $49 will buy you 56 CDs from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But rather than containing music, these CDs carry more than 5 million names, making up the Church''s new release of ...

1890 - The U.S. Constitution mandates a census, or headcount, of the country's population every ten years. When the Constitution was written, the main reason for the census was to know the number of ...

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 ...

A Census taker asks questions of a woman at the door of her house, early 20th century. This week, as Americans begin to fill out their Census forms, they are sending messages to the future about who ...

Alabama was a sparsely populated wilderness by the time the first census was taken of the territory in 1800. The long parade of Census numbers since then spins intriguing stories of yearning, tragedy, ...

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.

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 ...

Our news partners at HistoryLink.org have written on population characteristics and trends throughout Washington history based on historical census data. See their stories below to learn more about ...