The US Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been charged with political significance, and continues to be. That’s clear ...

Alabama was a sparsely populated wilderness by the time the first census was taken of the territory in 1800. The long parade of Census numbers since then spins intriguing stories of yearning, tragedy, ...

NBC News reported on Monday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, was a descendant of two men who owned slaves in the mid-1800s. The issue of whether or not the United States ...