Alabama’s first-ever Census as a state got badly bungled. A series of letters written in that long-ago time, one by a future U.S. president, leave no doubt that this is true. Is the “official” Alabama ...

The fourth census of the United States, the 1820, made several changes to the format of the previous three enumerations and represented, up to that time, the census that asked for the most information ...

The Florida Historical Quarterly is the scholarly publication of the Florida Historical Society and has been central to the Society's mission "to prepare, edit and publish articles, sketches, ...