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The Census, Audiences, and Publics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Margo Anderson
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Abstract

Visual and oral, video and audio evidence are brought to bear to examine the history of the U.S. census and the practice of social science history. The article explores how artists have appropriated and depicted census taking in America and how census takers used “artistic” forms of evidence to advertise and promote the census and explicate census results to the public. The article also suggests how social science historians have understood and used the new electronic environment of the Internet and the World Wide Web to present their data and findings.

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Presidential Address
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Social Science History , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , Spring 2008, pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2008 

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