It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some ...

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Robert Siegel talks with Susan Cooper, head of publicity for the National Archives, about Monday's system crash as the result of people trying to access their own family's history from the 1940 Census ...

On April 1, 1950, an army of 140,000 census enumerators, equipped with fountain pens and government forms, started fanning out across the country to paint a portrait of the United States. Knocking on ...

The 1921 census has now been published online, capturing the lives of more than 38 million people in post-First World War Britain. Whether you're interested in looking up a famous person from history ...

“You had better remove the records,” Secretary of State James Monroe warned President James Madison during the War of 1812 as British troops advanced toward Washington to burn it down. The U.S.