The 1840 census represents the last of the federal censuses that focus on the heads of households only. Like all of the censuses before it, the 1840 was still under the jurisdiction of the U.S ...

In 1840, the government's count found that ‘insanity and idiocy’ was 10 times more common among free Blacks than the enslaved — a number that was completely wrong but never corrected.

In 1840, Bishop John Strachan, the notorious Anglican power-broker who had dominated Upper Canada’s politics and real estate for over two decades, hired a young Black student to carry out what ...

After a lower court ordered the Trump administration to continue counting for the 2020 census through Oct. 31, ... as lawmakers did for the national head counts from 1810 through 1840. ...

Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here’s how they have changed over the last 230 years. By K.K. Rebecca Lai and Jennifer Medina Oct. 16, 2023 Since ...