One hundred years ago, the 1920 census showed Tennessee had more males than females, had a decreasing Black population and relatively few people born south of the country's border, and was a ...

In 1920, Norway’s capital city was called Kristiania, not Oslo, and the country was in economic crisis after the end of the First World War. The country had a population of 2,649,775, according to the ...

A view of tabulators working at their desks in the Census Bureau. A view of tabulators working at their desks in the Census Bureau.Thomas D. McAvoy—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images After ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We all await the results of the 2020 census,” Price writes, “but it’s also interesting to look back 100 years ago to see what the 1920 census told us about Texas.” In the same message, she forwarded ...

Into the 1920s, the city’s largest employers were the cotton manufacturing corporations. As extensively documented, during the early years of Lowell’s mills the workforce was composed largely of ...