NEW YORK -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of ...

the majority of states in the Rocky Mountain region. Several other states are more than 80 percent done or in the final stages of being completed. According to Nauta, more than 150,000 volunteers ...

NEW YORK — As a teenager, tennis legend Althea Gibson played paddle tennis on the streets of her New York City neighborhood. But there's no record of Gibson or her parents in the 1940 U.S. Census.

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Last week, in spite of President Roosevelt’s huff-puff (“obvious political move”), U. S. citizens continued to mutter against snooping questions in the 1940 Census. New York’s Legislature resolved to ...

For the first time in 72 years, geneaologists and historians will get a glimpse of data collected during the 1940 U.S. Census, which was released Monday by the federal government. WRAL's Tar Heel ...