"This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The...

This is the first full scale survey of the demographic history of the United States in one volume. It starts with the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere and ends with the questions of declining fertility, and the changes in marriage and the family in the current century

The US decennial census was initiated in 1790 to facilitate nation-building tasks, especially that of reconfiguring political representation as the population grew and settled new territories. To this basic task of power distribution have been added other key governmental functions, such as the...