Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Census and the New Nation: Apportionment, Congress, and the Progress of the United States
Chapter 2. Sectional Crisis and Census Reform in the 1850s
Chapter 3. Counting Slaves and Freedmen: War and Reconstruction by the Numbers
Chapter 4. The Census and Industrial America in the Gilded Age
Chapter 5. Building the Federal Statistical System in the Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 6. The Tribal Twenties: National Origins, Malapportionment, and Cheating by the Numbers
Chapter 7. Counting the Unemployed and the Crisis of the Great Depression
Chapter 8. War, Welfare, and the Census: Statistics for the American Century
Chapter 9. Reapportionment, Funds Allocations, and the Census
Chapter 10. Census Undercount and the Politics of Counting, 1970–1980
Chapter 11. The Undercount Controversies Continue
Chapter 12. The Census and the American Community Survey
Conclusion
Appendix 1. US 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
Notes