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• The Department of Veterans Affairs lists casualty figures for all major American wars through 2001.

• The official Military Casualty Information page is published by the Department of Defense.

• Statistical Resources on the Web from the University of Michigan Library publishes an extensive list of web sites that provide military and defense statistics.

These Temple-only databases provide historical statistics.

• Selected Historical Decennial Census - Population and Housing Counts (U.S. Census Bureau) - Includes three important sources:
  
  
  • Historical Census Reports in PDF format back to 1790;
  • Measuring America, offering individual histories of each census including original questionnaires and instructions; and
  • Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 (c1975, PDF doc). Also available in print, but see above for access to the more recent 2006 edition.
    

• Historical Statistics of Canada - Digital version of the 1983, 2nd edition reference work

• Historical U.S. Census Browser (University of Virginia Library, Geospatial and Statistical Data Center) - Easy mapping / manipulation of historical U.S. census data from 1790 to 1960
  
  
• Locating Historical United States Census Information - This is the homepage of a series of guides covering each of the U.S. censuses, 1790-1930. Created by Temple's Government Documents Librarian, Susan Golding.