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 ...

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.