Corrections
- 2026-10-04
Corrected the Hyder Ally card in the Tiger of Mysore section. The ship was a Pennsylvania state ship, not a Continental Navy ship, and no source says the name was chosen in tribute; the card now gives its commander, date, and place. The section's framing that Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan inspired the Revolution, and that Jefferson admired Tipu, was replaced with what the Adams and Jefferson letters document.
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Source: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/g/general-washington.html
- 2026-10-04
Removed a quotation attributed to the Naval History and Heritage Command that could not be found in any of its publications, and corrected the citation from a nonexistent Hyder-Ally entry to the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships entry for General Washington.
Page: /sources#hyder-ally-1782
Source: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/g/general-washington.html
- 2026-10-04
Corrected Nicholas Said's arrival year from 1856 to 1860, matching the rest of the site and the sources on his arrival in New York as a free man.
- 2026-10-04
Corrected the statement that Morocco's alliance held throughout the First Barbary War: Morocco declared war in 1802 and reaffirmed its 1786 treaty in 1803. Also replaced 'not faith' with a note that Tripoli's envoy framed the demands in religious terms in 1786.
Page: /timeline/first-barbary-war
Source: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/barbary-wars
- 2026-10-04
Clarified that the quoted list of protected faiths comes from Jefferson's 1821 Autobiography, describing the legislature's intent, not from the text of the statute.
Page: /timeline/virginia-statute-for-religious-freedom
Source: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-17-02-0324-0002
- 2026-10-04
Added a cited institutional or primary source to 13 timeline entries that had none, including the three corrected above, and adjusted wording to match those sources: Locke, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (removed the unsourced word 'hafiz'), the 1776 population estimate, Morocco 1777, the 1786 treaty ('oldest' rather than 'longest' unbroken treaty), the First Amendment (now presented as historian Denise Spellberg's argument), Omar ibn Said ('only known surviving'), Yarrow Mamout, Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, and the Ross, North Dakota mosque.
Page: /#timeline
Source: Each entry's cited source on its timeline page
- 2026-10-05
Made two descriptions consistent across the site. The 1786 Treaty of Peace and Friendship is now called the oldest unbroken treaty in U.S. history everywhere, matching U.S. government phrasing (the separate phrase 'longest unbroken treaty relationship' is unchanged). Ayuba Suleiman Diallo is no longer called a 'hafiz', a word no source applied to him; the entries now say what Thomas Bluett's 1734 memoir records, that he could write out the Qur'an from memory. The 1796 Yarrow Mamout entry now cites the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery instead of Wikipedia alone.
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