{
  "dataset": "corrections",
  "description": "Every logged correction with its date, page, summary, and source.",
  "publisher": "Threads of Connection",
  "url": "https://usmuslim.org/data/corrections.json",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "citation": "Threads of Connection, usmuslim.org/data/corrections.json",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-10-22",
  "count": 16,
  "records": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "page": "/",
      "summary": "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.",
      "source": "https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/g/general-washington.html",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "page": "/sources#hyder-ally-1782",
      "summary": "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.",
      "source": "https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/g/general-washington.html",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "page": "/timeline/nicholas-said-arrives-in-america",
      "summary": "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.",
      "source": "https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/said/summary.html",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "page": "/timeline/first-barbary-war",
      "summary": "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.",
      "source": "https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/barbary-wars",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "page": "/timeline/virginia-statute-for-religious-freedom",
      "summary": "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.",
      "source": "https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-17-02-0324-0002",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "page": "/#timeline",
      "summary": "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.",
      "source": "Each entry's cited source on its timeline page",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-05",
      "page": "/",
      "summary": "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.",
      "source": "https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/bluett/bluett.html",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-18",
      "page": "/timeline/the-mother-mosque",
      "summary": "Narrowed the Mother Mosque of America from \"the oldest surviving purpose-built mosque in North America\" to \"in the United States, according to the National Park Service\", on the timeline, the landmarks and sources pages, and the Year Quest puzzle. The National Park Service's own page describes it as the oldest surviving place of worship built for Muslims in the country; the \"North America\" wording came from the mosque's own history page, which can corroborate but should not alone establish its own primacy. The timeline entry now cites the National Park Service instead of the mosque's site, and its renovation note is corrected: the Islamic Council of Iowa renovated the building in the early 1990s, rather than community members restoring it in 1991 and 1992. The entry also now states that Ross, North Dakota (1929) is generally credited as the first purpose-built mosque.",
      "source": "https://www.nps.gov/articles/mothermosque.htm",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-18",
      "page": "/landmarks",
      "summary": "Softened the Al-Sadiq Mosque (Chicago, 1922) card from \"generally credited as the oldest still-standing mosque in the United States\" to \"among the earliest mosques in the United States\", and stated that some sources call it the oldest still-standing mosque but that the label depends on the definition. The claim rested on Wikipedia, whose own article tags it as needing a better source, and on a news feature; the mosque began in an existing building, while the National Park Service describes the Mother Mosque of America (1934) as the oldest surviving place of worship built for Muslims. The card tag changed from \"Oldest standing mosque\" to \"Among the earliest US mosques\".",
      "source": "https://www.nps.gov/articles/mothermosque.htm",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-18",
      "page": "/timeline/treaty-of-tripoli-ratified",
      "summary": "Corrected the source link on the Tripoli entry, which pointed to the 1786 Morocco treaty text instead of the 1796 Tripoli treaty. Removed the word \"unanimously\" from the entry, the home page, the documents page, and Year Quest: the sources checked document Senate consent on June 7, 1797 and ratification on June 10, 1797, and only secondary accounts describe the vote as unanimous. Added a context section that records the missing Arabic Article 11 noted by Hunter Miller.",
      "source": "https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796t.asp",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-18",
      "page": "/daily",
      "summary": "The Year Quest puzzle and the home page card for the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli linked the 1786 Morocco treaty text on the Avalon Project. Both now link the 1796 Tripoli treaty text, matching the timeline entry corrected earlier the same day.",
      "source": "https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796t.asp",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-22",
      "page": "/timeline/jefferson-s-qur-an-returns-to-congress",
      "summary": "The entry said Jefferson bought a 1734 English translation of the Qur'an. George Sale's translation was first published in 1734, but Jefferson's copy is the second edition, published in London in 1764, per Monticello and the Library of Congress. The entry now says so.",
      "source": "https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/quran",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-22",
      "page": "/",
      "summary": "The 2023 FBI hate-crime card called 236 anti-Muslim incidents the \"fifth-highest year on record.\" That ranking traced only to an advocacy statement, so the card now says \"the most since 2017,\" which a news report of the FBI data also gives, and cites it. The card also now says the 2,699 religion-based total counts single-bias incidents.",
      "source": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/antisemitic-hate-crimes-in-us-surged-63-in-2023-to-all-time-high-of-1832-fbi/",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-22",
      "page": "/timeline/north-carolina-debates-whether-a-muslim-could-be-president",
      "summary": "Five places (this entry, the home page founders section and quiz, Year Quest, and an educator lesson) said delegate William Lancaster \"conceded\" that a Muslim might someday be president, as if he agreed with Iredell. Lancaster was an Anti-Federalist opposing the no-religious-test clause, and his remark (\"Papists may occupy that chair, and Mahometans may take it\") was a warning. All five now say so.",
      "source": "https://csac.history.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/281/2024/04/DC8-06-02-07_Lancaster-Speech_30Jul88.pdf",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-22",
      "page": "/#founders",
      "summary": "A sitewide audit against the Ideas essays narrowed founding-era claims that went past their sources. The Jefferson card's quotation is now attributed to his 1776 notes paraphrasing Locke, not the Virginia Statute debates. Ottoman influence on Locke and the First Amendment is labeled contested, not a 'well-evidenced thread.' Locke's toleration is described with its stated limits. Statements that the Virginia Statute or the Founders 'put inclusion into law,' that Madison contemplated Muslim citizens, and that the Morocco treaty 'shaped domestic law' now say what the documents show or attribute the reading to Spellberg. Morocco treaty wording is standardized to 'oldest unbroken treaty' and notes the 1802 to 1803 rupture. Spellberg's book is described as a leading, contested study. Wikipedia-only cards gained scholarly sources, and an unsupported library-size comparison was removed.",
      "source": "https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0222-0007",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-22",
      "page": "/timeline",
      "summary": "A sitewide audit of post-1820 claims narrowed statements that went past their sources. Removed: an unsourced count of 'nearly 300' Muslim Civil War soldiers and an unsourced 'highest-ranking Muslim officer' claim; the Webb 'sole representative' and 'first sustained Muslim press' superlatives; 'single largest structural cause' for the 1965 immigration act; 'greatest structural engineer' for Fazlur Khan; an uncited Aziz Sancar quotation; 'largest' and 'first' claims for CAIR, Azizah al-Hibri, and ICNA Relief that rested on the organizations' own or advocacy sources. Fixed: Keith Ellison's oath dated 2007, not 2006, on the timeline, home page, and Educators; Omar ibn Said's memoir called the 'only known' one; Ross, North Dakota qualified as 'generally credited'; Ibtihaj Muhammad worded the same everywhere; the Year Quest Mother Mosque entry now cites the National Park Service; Washington's 1784 letter to Tench Tilghman on Sources now matches the home page wording ('may be of Asia ... Christian of any Sect'), as in Mount Vernon's transcription. Editorial sentences were cut.",
      "source": "https://www.nps.gov/articles/mothermosque.htm",
      "reported_by_credit": null
    }
  ]
}