The government produces a lot of valuable information for researchers in the New South. There are laws, court cases, reports from different government agencies, congressional or legislative hearings and reports that can be extremely valuable to historical research. On this page are some of the government information from the Federal government, and state governments of the South that has been made available online.
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867.
State Archives of the Southern states can contain quite a lot of valuable material about the state, including maps, newspapers, state government records, city records and images.
The U.S. Census Bureau counts each resident of the country, where they live on April 1, every ten years ending in zero. It includes populations of all states in the country, plus populations of counties and cities. It also includes agricultural data, industrial/manufacturing data, and other information, such as number of schools by state. The link below takes you to a page where you can gain access to any census from 1790 to 2010.
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