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 ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, President Trump signed a memorandum — sure to be challenged in court as violating the Constitution — intended to bar undocumented immigrants from being counted for congressional ...

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 ...

Note: This data was obtained through a query of the digitized federal census for 1920. By 1920, of all the major immigrant groups in Lowell, the Portuguese, comprising the sixth largest foreign-born ...

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 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; ...