Datasets are born digital materials that have been edited and prepared by historians. British History Online has transformed the original databases into web pages. (source:website)
From the U.S. Census Bureau. For the printed version, see the Rowan University Catalog record.
Editions of Historical Statistics of the United States:
“This volume Is a completely revised and expanded version of Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1946, issued in 1949. Compiled by the Bureau of the Census with the cooperation of the Social Science Research Council, this new historical supplement to the Statistical Abstract ot the United States presents in compact and convenient form more than 8,000 statistical time series (mostly on an annual basis) which cover periods from 1610 to 1957.” (source: website)
“A two-part compendium updating and expanding the second edition, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957. This bicentennial edition, includes more than 12,500 time series, mostly annual, providing a statistical history of U.S. social, economic, political, and geographic development during periods from 1610 to 1970.” (source: website)
Catalog record for print of Colonial Times to 1970 edition, held by Rowan University
The History Data Service data collection brings together over 650 separate studies transcribed, scanned or compiled from historical sources. The studies cover a wide range of historical topics, from the seventh century to the twentieth century. Although the primary focus of the collection is the United Kingdom, it also includes a significant body of cross-national and international data collections. Examples of topics covered include nineteenth and twentieth-century statistics, manuscript census records, state finance data, demographic data, mortality data, community histories, electoral history and economic indicators.