From the eBook - Second edition.
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
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.
