This paper reviews the literature in historical record linkage in the United States and
examines the performance of widely used record-linking algorithms and common variations …

The presence of a westward‐moving frontier of settlement shaped early US history. In 1893,
the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered …

ABSTRACT The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the looting, burning, and leveling of
35 square blocks of a once-thriving Black neighborhood. Not only did this lead to severe …

This paper presents a probabilistic method of record linkage, developed using the US full
count censuses of 1900 and 1910 but applicable to many sources of digitized historical …

A large body of evidence finds that relative mobility in the US has declined over the past 150
years. However, long-run mobility estimates are usually based on White samples and …

We use newly collected data for 16,000 women who applied for Mothers' Pensions,
America's first welfare program, to investigate the effect of means-tested cash transfers on …

ABSTRACT The Census Tree is the largest-ever database of record links among the
historical US censuses, with over 700 million links for people living in the United States …

This paper describes the creation of the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic
Micro-Database (LIFE-M), a new data resource linking vital records and decennial censuses …

This article examines the role of the Great Depression in shaping the intergenerational
mobility of some of the most upwardly mobile cohorts of the twentieth century. Using newly …

Digitized historical newspaper databases offer a valuable research tool. A rapidly expanding
set of studies use these databases to address a wide range of topics. We review this …