The American census : a social history

Introduction -- The census and the new nation: apportionment, Congress, and the progress of the United States -- Sectional crisis and census reform in the 1850s -- Counting slaves and freedmen: war and reconstruction by the numbers -- The census and industrial America in the Gilded Age -- Building the federal statistical system in the early twentieth century -- The tribal twenties: national origins, malapportionment, and cheating by the numbers -- Counting the unemployed and the crisis of the Great Depression -- War, welfare, and the census: statistics for the American century -- Reapportionment, funds allocations, and the census -- Census undercount and the politics of counting, 1970-1980 -- The undercount controversies continue -- The census and the American community survey -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: U.S. population and area, 1790-2010 -- Appendix 2: Growth and cost of the decennial census, 1790-2010 -- Appendix 3: Congressional apportionment, 1789-2010 -- Appendix 4: Chronology of the states of the Union