HIST 115a: Corporate Power and American Capitalism

Standard source for statistics on American history. Dates of coverage vary, but often from colonial times to the late 1990s across subjects including population, crime, health and more.

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Create maps and reports to illustrate, analyze, and understand demography and social change. Data sets include the US Census from 1790-2010, the American Community Survey, the Religious Congregations and Membership Survey, carbon emissions data from the Vulcan Project, and more.