Since 1790, the decennial census has played a crucial role in creating and reshaping the ever-changing views of racial and ethnic identity in the United States.

A census enumerator's records from the 1790 census, the first-ever to be conducted in the United States. National Archives. August 2, 1790: the first Census Day, when brave enumerators went out on ...

→ The 1790 census costs $44,000, or 1.1 cents per capita; the final report is 56 pages long. The director is Thomas Jefferson, and six questions are asked.. → As set out in Article 1, Section ...

If you take a beginning genealogy course you will often learn, as I did many years ago, that the 1790 census was destroyed by fire when the British invaded Washington D.C., during the War of 1812 ...

In response to the May 10 column by Ted Diadiun, “Census questions not up to liberal judges:" The 1790 census taken after the founding of our country called for the name of the head of the ...

Since 1790, the first census, state populations have unevenly increased, and at times decreased. Repeated reallocation is fundamental to the fairness of our representative democracy.

The population of the United States has grown almost 123 times since the first federal census was conducted after the ...

Of the top 25 most populous locations in the country recorded by the 1790 census, seven were located in Massachusetts. Boston was the third most populous city in 1790 with a population of 18,320.

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

Last week, the Census Bureau dropped a demographic bombshell. According to its 2020 count, the number of white people in this country has fallen for the first time since the first census in 1790.

The 2020 Census is at risk — and that’s a threat to democracy.

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