The meat of the United States Census, taken every ten years, is the body of statistics drawn up on the people questioned. Yet the questions…
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Today, Boardman Robinson would be called a resistance artist. Born in Canada in 1876, Robinson moved to the U.S. in the 1890s, where he worked as…
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