Our American Heritage — what changed and why

A running record of everything done to the manuscript, kept so the author can see it, question it, and reverse any of it. Updated as each chapter is built.

Standing rules this record enforces

1. His words are the book. Nothing is added, cut, reworded or moved silently.
2. Where a page pattern needs words the manuscript does not supply, the minimum is written and listed here as mine, for him to approve or replace.
3. Factual problems are flagged, never quietly corrected.
4. Scripture is transcribed exactly as he wrote it, including wording that differs from modern editions.

Open questions and blockers live in AUTHOR QUERIES - verification log.md.

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1 · What the book gained that the manuscript never had

Confirmed by searching all seventeen chapters of Our American Heritage.docx: the manuscript contains no chapter review, word search, crossword, answer key, fill-in-the-blank exercise, or artwork. Zero occurrences of any of them.

• A designed page system. Continuous prose became fixed printed pages with a palette, two typefaces and about a dozen repeating page patterns.
• Original artwork. Nine to ten pictures per chapter in one locked style, plus a full-page opening image per chapter.
• A Chapter Review — ten fill-in-the-blank questions, the first way a child can check what they learned. Answers come only from his Words to Know list and the exact text of the amendment. Nothing doctrinal is quizzed.
• A puzzle per chapter — word search and crossword alternating, using the same ten answers.
• An answer key in the back matter. Family Questions are excluded, since they have no right answers.
• A milestone page — a chapter badge to colour in, and a Bill of Rights progress strip that fills in as the child advances.
• Parent and grandparent notes — brief guidance for the adult reading along.
• Print production — sized for Amazon KDP at 8.5 x 11in, artwork at 300dpi, bleed on the chapter openers, margins verified against Amazon's requirements.

What was already his, in every chapter, and is unchanged in kind: Words to Know, Memory Verse, Family Discussion, Family Activity, A Grandparent's Thought, Constitution Fun Facts, Founder Spotlight, Famous Quote, Bible Connection, the Virtues table, and Rights Come with Responsibilities.

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2 · Changes to his actual words

Paragraph numbers refer to the manuscript.

Chapter Two — The Structure of the Constitution

¶167 — a reading I chose. "It's difficult to make plans when you cannot be certain if the rules of government will not last" says the opposite of what the paragraph argues. It reads "…will last." If he meant something else, this is the place to say so.

Nothing was cut — but only after a second pass. A sentence-by-sentence comparison against the manuscript found that the first build of this chapter had dropped or trimmed ten of his passages. All are back:

I had also written "are the changes made since" for the Amendments on page 23; it now uses his own words from ¶198, "deal with the changes."

Held back — one sentence. ¶193 ends "Here is the link to order, The Tuttle Twins and the Creature from Jekyll Island – The Tuttle Twins." A link cannot work on a printed page, and the manuscript gives no address. The sentence before it, naming the booklet, is printed. See AUTHOR QUERIES D8.

Moved within the chapter. ¶176's closing sentences ("Those changes that did take place…") and ¶177's "Some mistakenly have taught the Supremacy clause…" sit beneath the Article cards on page 27 instead of inside them, and ¶179 (Article VII) sits with Articles V and VI, ahead of the oath. The page shows the seven Articles together; his sentences are all there.

Everything openly political is printed in full. ¶170–171 (slavery and abortion), ¶190–191 (surveillance), and ¶192–193 (the 16th Amendment and his opinion that it should end) are transcribed exactly. Nothing was softened.

Twenty-two pages (19–40), numbered on the assumption that Chapter One ends at page 18.

Chapter Three — The Preamble

Layout only, no words changed: his four emoji in ¶244–247 became numbered circles; trailing colons dropped where a lead-in became a heading or pill label (Memory Challenge, Family Prayer, A Grandparent's Thought) and from the virtue table's row labels; ¶303's "Proverbs 14:34," set as the citation beneath the verse; his family questions numbered 1–9 (the manuscript does not number them).

Nothing was cut. A sentence-by-sentence comparison puts every paragraph from ¶241 to ¶330 on the pages. Eighteen pages.

Chapter Four — The Bill of Rights

Layout only, no words changed: the opening questions of ¶347 and ¶348 became a heading and sub-heading, the rest of each paragraph following unchanged; the verses in ¶361, ¶365 and ¶399 sit in panels beneath his lead-ins, with his reference repeated as the citation (his spelling, "Psalms 33:12"); ¶413's "(2 Corinthians 3:17)" moved to the citation line; colons dropped from three headings; list emoji became gold diamonds and his ⭐ fun facts numbered circles; his discussion questions numbered 1–5.

Nothing was cut. Every paragraph from ¶340 to ¶438 is on the pages. Sixteen pages.

Chapter Six — The Second Amendment

¶587 — a sentence that had no working grammar. He wrote: "They also knew human nature and the danger of Governments, including our own, could drift towards tyranny to oppress their citizens." It reads: "They also knew human nature, and the danger that governments — including our own — could drift toward tyranny and oppress their citizens." Repairing it required choosing a reading. If he meant something else, this is the place to say so.

¶¶583, 586 — condensed to fit their pages. Roughly a third of each was cut. ¶586's two-sided sentence about what government owes and what citizens keep was split across two facing cards; his wording is inside them.

¶641 — his activity framing was replaced. He wrote "Time to take the responsibility challenge. Make a list of things in your home that require responsibility." The page instead lists his five examples with a short written prompt beside each. His framing sentence is not in the book.

¶649 — condensed into the activity's opening line.

Chapter Seven — The Third Amendment

¶777 — RESTORED IN FULL (2026-09-09). The second half — "When families are out of order, dysfunctional, and abusive, not only do people spin out of control, but society suffers great harm as well." — had been cut for page length. It is back on page 73.

¶778 — RESTORED IN FULL (2026-09-09). "One of the main reasons why there is such a burden of taxation upon America today is because in many ways our government is replacing God in our lives and fathers in our homes." Back on page 73, with two typos corrected: "main reason" to reasons, and "are government" to our government.

Why they were gone, and why that was wrong. Both were cut because the closing page could not hold them. That is a real constraint but not a reason to remove an author's words without saying so, and it happened after I had said I would stop doing exactly this. The page was rebuilt instead: the drawing box came down from 2.5in to 1.88in and the panel's line spacing tightened, and both passages fit. The constraint was mine to solve, not his to absorb.

Both chapters — emoji

His ⭐ 🏡 ❤️ 🙏 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 📖 😊 🤝 🎵 do not print reliably at any size. They became a gold-diamond marker for list items and numbered navy circles for ordered lists. No wording changed.

Chapter Eight — The Fourth Amendment

Scripture preserved exactly as written, including Exodus 20:15,17 quoted with ellipses across two verses and "thou shall not covet" where the KJV has shalt.

Nothing was cut. Every paragraph from ¶799 to ¶885 reached the pages.

Chapter Nine — The Fifth Amendment

Two shields per page. The Fifth Amendment has five protections, but the manuscript gives each about ninety words — not enough to fill a page apiece the way Chapter Five's freedoms did. They run two to a page, with Just Compensation alone on the third. Nothing was cut; every paragraph from ¶893 to ¶967 reached the pages.

Scripture preserved exactly, including Proverbs 18:13 as "He that answers a matter before he hears it" where the KJV has answereth and heareth.

Rutherford's Lex, Rex (1644) is public domain — unlike the R.J. Rushdoony quotation in Chapter Seven, it carries no rights question.

Chapter Ten — The Sixth Amendment

The abridging ellipsis in the amendment text (¶994) is his. The manuscript quotes the Sixth Amendment with "…committed... and to be informed" — the clause about being informed of the district is dropped in the manuscript itself. It is printed exactly as he abridged it. Worth deciding whether a workbook should carry the amendment whole.

Proverbs 18:17 is quoted twice in this chapter, in two different translations. The memory verse (¶988) reads "He that is first in his own cause seems just; but his neighbor comes and searches him" — the KJV with seemeth, cometh and searcheth modernised. The family-activity page (¶1072) reads "The first one to plead his cause seems right, until his neighbor comes and examines him" — the NKJV. Both are printed as he wrote them. A child who memorises one and then reads the other on page 118 will notice. See AUTHOR QUERIES B-series.

Jury nullification (¶1003–1004) is printed in full and neutrally, under its own heading, with his next paragraph — the one beginning "Most courts just want jurors to listen to the evidence" — kept immediately beneath it, so both sides of what he wrote stay together on the page. Nothing was softened and nothing was added.

Nothing was cut — but only after a second pass. A mechanical sentence-by-sentence comparison against the manuscript found that the first build of this chapter had dropped eight passages of his writing. All eight are now on the pages:

Every page in the chapter had been filled to the last line, which is exactly how his words got squeezed out. The fix was to give the chapter more room, not to trim him further: page 113 had been carrying two separate manuscript sections at once — The Virtues Behind the Sixth Amendment and Rights Come with Responsibilities — and it now carries one each, with a third page for the fun facts. Chapter Ten is eighteen pages, not sixteen (104–121). Because that adds an even number of pages, every page after it keeps the left/right side it already had. The constraint was mine to solve, not his to absorb.

Chapter Eleven — The Seventh Amendment

His section heading is kept. "Why Do We Need Fair Decisions?" (¶1103) is the title of page 123. I had first written my own heading there and replaced it with his.

¶1129 is printed in full, unaltered. It names "political correctness, and woke ideology" among the things that can sway a judge. That is his sentence and his argument, and it stays. Flagged only so he knows it is the one openly political passage in Chapters Six through Eleven, and can decide whether he wants it in a book sold nationally. Nothing was softened.

Twenty pages, not sixteen. The Seventh Amendment chapter carries more of his prose than the earlier ones — the jury-service section and the virtues table are both new to this chapter — and the amendment text was given its own page, as in every previous chapter. A closing page I had drafted with a sentence of my own was cut before it reached him.

Nothing was cut. A sentence-by-sentence comparison against the manuscript puts every paragraph from ¶1099 to ¶1190 on the pages.

Chapter Twelve — The Eighth Amendment

That is the only change to his words in this chapter. Everything else is transcribed exactly, including the two passages below.

¶1226 is printed in full and unaltered. It reads: "Case in point, under Christianity if a thief is caught, he must work to restore what was stolen with interest (Exodus 22:1). Under Islamic rule, the thief's hand is chopped off. Islamic punishment exceeds the nature of the crime. That is not justice tempered by mercy." Nothing was softened and nothing was cut. It is flagged in AUTHOR QUERIES D6 because it is a direct comparative claim about another religion in a children's book that will be sold nationally, and because the factual picture is narrower than the sentence implies. His book, his call — but he should make it deliberately.

¶1282 is printed in full, including his bracketed glosses inside the Blackstone quotation — [The Biblical concepts of good and evil written on every human heart] and [The Bible]. Those brackets are his, not mine, and they are set in a different colour so a reader can see they are an explanation rather than Blackstone's own words.

Twenty-two pages. The Eighth Amendment chapter carries the Lex Talionis section, the three protections, the justice-and-mercy pages and two pages of Blackstone. Rather than crowd them, each got the room it needed.

Nothing was cut. A sentence-by-sentence comparison against the manuscript puts every paragraph from ¶1217 to ¶1317 on the pages.

Chapter Thirteen — The Ninth Amendment

That is the only change to his words. Layout only: his verse lead-ins ("Genesis 1:27," at ¶1334 and ¶1405, "Psalms 8:4-6," at ¶1362) became the citation lines beneath their panels; ¶1432's "(Galatians 5:13)" became the citation under that verse, his sentences before and after staying in order; colons dropped from the virtue-table labels; ⭐ fun facts became numbered circles; "James Madison (1751–1836)." set as a name line and a dates line; list items set as gold-diamond lists. His "Family Discussion" prints as "Family Questions" (G3), with his "Think Together" line beneath it.

Nothing was cut. Every paragraph from ¶1331 to ¶1438 is on the pages. Twenty pages — the Bible Connection page was split in two rather than crowd it.

Chapter Fourteen — The Tenth Amendment

That is the only change to his words. Layout only: "Chapter Fourteen:" is the kicker and "Government Close to the People" the subtitle; his lead-in questions became sub-headings; the five federal powers (¶1450–1455), the Federal and State responsibilities (¶1464–1475) and his virtues table (¶1482–1493) are set as a list, two cards and a table under his own headings; ⭐ fun facts and 🏛️ 🏘️ marks became numbered circles; "Roger Sherman (1721–1793)." is set as a name and dates; his closing sentences of ¶1446, ¶1494, ¶1502, ¶1548 and ¶1555 sit in panels between his other sentences, in order.

One move. His Memory Verse (¶1441–1442, Proverbs 11:14) opens the manuscript chapter; it sits on the Words to Know page, where the memory verse sits in every amendment chapter.

Milestone: medal 14, all ten markers gold, "10 of 10" — the Bill of Rights strip is complete.

Nothing was cut. Every paragraph from ¶1439 to ¶1555 is on the pages. Nineteen pages.

Chapter Fifteen — The 11th–27th Amendments

Layout only, no words changed: "Memory Verse", "Bible Connection" and "Fun Fact" became pill labels, with the verse references set beneath their verses; his two question headings set in title case; each "Amendment N (year)" line set as a small kicker above his title. Page 218 lists all seventeen amendments with his numbers, years and titles as an overview; each is then printed in full on its own page. His "Family Discussion" heading prints as "Family Questions" (see G3).

No amendment text was added. He quotes none of the seventeen amendments' actual wording — only his own summaries — so none is printed. His summaries' years are all correct; see AUTHOR QUERIES A14.

No progress strip. These amendments are not among the ten, so the review page carries a plain heading, as Chapter Two's does.

Nothing was cut. Every paragraph from ¶1574 to ¶1660 is on the pages. Eighteen pages.

Chapter Sixteen — America's Founders

No change to his words, and no typos needed correcting. Layout only:

• ¶1677 repeats the chapter title as a heading — printed once, as the opener title.
• ¶1678's three sentences are split across the opener and the next page, at a sentence boundary, in order.
• The references "Isaiah 51:1, 2," (¶1680) and "Proverbs 14:34," (¶1725) became citation lines beneath their verses.
• ¶1681's "John Adams declared," sits on its own line above the quotation.
• His nine occupations (¶1700–1709) are set in a three-column grid; his ⭐ fun facts as numbered circles; ¶1734–1735's four activity sentences as checklist rows.

Not a founder-per-page chapter. The manuscript is one essay in his own sections, so the pages follow his sections in his order; the Founder Spotlight frame is used for the four founders he names (Washington, Jefferson, Henry, Adams). No page claims a portrait likeness.

Nothing was cut. Every paragraph from ¶1676 to ¶1745 is on the pages. Fourteen pages.

Chapter Seventeen — Family Activities

Layout only: three Scripture references (¶1749, ¶1842, ¶1900) set as citations beneath their verses; "Bible Verse", "Memory Verse", "A Grandparent's Challenge" and "Ask:" became panel labels; one-word lead-ins ("Practice:", "Include:", "Label them:") became small labels; 🏛 and ✅ became gold diamonds and numbered circles. Every heading is his.

Two layout decisions that are his to approve (AUTHOR QUERIES D18):

• The Founder Match-Up is shuffled. He printed each Founder beside his or her own accomplishment, which leaves nothing to match. The accomplishments are reordered so none sits level with its own Founder; his pairings are the answers.
• The Preamble is printed on the memorisation page, repeated verbatim from his ¶242 in Chapter Three, so the family has the words in front of them.

No review or puzzle added — the chapter carries his own ten-question Constitution Challenge (¶1876–1887), set with writing lines.

Nothing was cut. Every paragraph from ¶1746 to ¶1909 is on the pages. Seventeen pages.

Glossary (back matter)

No typos corrected, nothing cut, nothing re-sorted. His 55 terms (¶1941–2050) were already alphabetical and stay in his order under letter headings. The range also holds two memory verses, the Lincoln passage (¶2051–2053), Family Discussion, a Family Activity and A Grandparent's Thought — all his, all built. Twelve pages. A sentence-by-sentence comparison puts every paragraph from ¶1934 to ¶2070 on the pages.

About the Author (back matter)

His four paragraphs (¶2093–2096), verbatim, on one page after the Glossary. His heading "About the Author:" drops its colon; the titles of his books are set in italics. "Learn more at RustyThomas.org" is printed as written — an address works on paper where a link does not. Nothing cut. Where it sits, and whether it carries his photograph, is his call — see AUTHOR QUERIES E5.

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3 · Where his words were moved

• Chapter Six ¶585 (learning to handle firearms) sits in a parent-and-grandparent panel, quoted in full and attributed to him, rather than in the child's column. His instruction.
• The Washington quotation (¶587) moved from the "why was this important" section to the page carrying the amendment itself, because that page pattern needs a founding-era quotation. Its surrounding argument stayed put.
• Scripture was distributed one per page rather than grouped under a single Bible Connection heading, so each page closes with its own verse. Every verse is used exactly once.
• Chapter Seven ¶707 ("As goes the father, so goes the home…") sits in its own panel with his framing line beneath it.

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4 · Words written for him, that are not his

Listed in full in AUTHORED CONTENT. In summary, per chapter: the ten review sentences carrying the fill-in blanks, the crossword clues derived from them, two or three panel headings, the parent notes, and — in Chapter Six only — a fifth Constitution fun fact and the five family-activity prompts.

All of it is his to approve, rewrite or cut.

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5 · Held back, awaiting his decision

• The R.J. Rushdoony quotation (Ch. 7 ¶736) is in the chapter but is not cleared for print. Still in copyright; rights being investigated. See AUTHOR QUERIES H6.
• A fifth Constitution fun fact for Chapter Seven. The manuscript gives four; the page pattern wants five. Left at four rather than inventing one.
• NKJV permissions. The book quotes both the KJV (public domain) and the NKJV (in copyright). He has decided to keep the NKJV and seek permission. See AUTHOR QUERIES H1.

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6 · Factual matters flagged, never changed

• "A man's house is his castle" (Ch. 8, ¶855) sits under James Otis Jr.'s Famous Quote. Otis did invoke it, and the manuscript does not claim he coined it — but it is a much older English legal maxim, from Sir Edward Coke's ruling in Semayne's Case, around 1604. Nothing on the page is wrong; worth knowing.
• John Adams is drawn as a young lawyer at his writing table, not from a portrait likeness. The same is true of Samuel Adams (Ch. 7), James Otis Jr. (Ch. 8) and James Madison (Ch. 9): the Founder Spotlight art shows a man of the right age, dress and occupation, not a reproduction of a known portrait. If he wants recognisable likenesses, that is a different sourcing decision.
• James Madison is the Founder Spotlight twice — Chapter Five and Chapter Nine. Both are the manuscript's choice and both fit (Father of the Constitution; Father of the Bill of Rights), but across seventeen chapters the author may prefer to vary it. His call.
• The George Washington quotation used in Chapter Six ("Government is not reason… it is force!") does not appear anywhere in Washington's writings and is regarded as spurious. Transcribed as he wrote it. See AUTHOR QUERIES A1.
• The Burke line in Chapter Five ("the only thing necessary for evil to triumph…") has the same problem. Already in the approved chapter.
• Psalm 144:1 is quoted as "which teaches my hands to war" where the KJV has teacheth. Preserved exactly as written.

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7 · Layout corrections made after the chapters were first built

These changed no words. They are recorded because they altered pages he has already seen.

• Every chapter had holes in it, and the gates never saw them. The layout checks asked "does anything run off the page?" and "is the gold rule exactly 4px?" — both of which passed — but never asked whether a page actually looked right. It did not. The artwork on most pages was set to margin-top:auto, which pins the picture to the bottom of the page and dumps every spare inch into one gap above it. Chapter Eleven had a void on 18 of its 20 pages, the largest 4.13in — a third of a page of nothing. Chapter Six, which he has already approved, has the same fault at up to 1.98in.

The fix is that the picture now grows to absorb the leftover space instead of floating away from the text, so a page with less writing gets a larger illustration rather than a hole. Where a page has no picture to grow, its blocks share the space evenly. Slack at the foot of a page is fine — it reads as a margin; slack in the middle reads as a mistake.

• Pill-labelled panels were sitting too close to the text above them. The design rule is 0.3in of clearance, because the pill straddles the panel's top edge. Six panels in Chapter Eleven measured 0.27–0.28in. The cause was rotation: a 7in picture band turned 0.7deg grows about 0.04in taller at each corner, so a nominal 0.34in margin measures 0.28in on the page. Clearance is now specified at 0.42in to land above 0.30in after rotation.

• The crossword grid printed with uneven lines. Each square drew its own 1px border, so an edge shared by two squares was drawn twice and printed at 2px while an outer edge printed at 1px — and on fractional pixel boundaries the doubling landed unevenly, making some squares look markedly darker. Each square now draws only its top and left edge, plus a right or bottom edge where it has no neighbour, so every line in the grid is a single 1px line.

• A picture on Chapter Eleven page 123 showed a kitchen table. The brief asked for an empty meeting-room table and the page asks who should decide a disagreement; the result meant nothing there. Replaced with twelve townspeople hearing two neighbours.

• A picture was printed across three lines of text. Chapter Six page 49 — the militia photograph is positioned against the outside edge, so it takes up no room in the flow and the words simply ran underneath it. It was introduced by the whole-book pass on 9 September: the picture was enlarged to fill the page, grew downward, and covered a paragraph that had previously sat below it. The two paragraphs above it were already held to a 4.6in measure to clear the picture; the third now is too. The picture was not changed.

None of the existing checks could have caught it. They measured how far down a page things reached, never whether two things occupied the same place. pipeline/collision.js now measures every line of text as its own rectangle and tests it against every picture on the page. Text that sits on a picture by design — a chapter title over the opening photograph, a note on a tinted panel — is recognised by having an opaque background of its own and is not flagged. Run across all seven chapters, page 49 was the only instance in the book.

• Puzzle pages no longer sit at an angle, and their squares are pixel-aligned. Every other page in the book carries a slight rotation — it is what keeps the design from feeling stiff — but a crossword or word search is something a child writes into, and a tilted grid is harder to write in and harder to read. The rotation was also part of why the squares printed unevenly: a rotated grid puts every border on a fractional pixel. Puzzle headings are now straight and the cells are sized in whole pixels rather than fractions of an inch.

• The Jefferson quotation panel was far larger than its own contents. I had let it grow to fill the page, which turned a hole on the page into a bigger hole inside a box. The panel is now sized to what is in it.

• Two pages running one after another both showed a book lying on a table. Chapter Eleven pages 129 and 130. Page 130 is about justice not depending on wealth or position, so it now shows a finely dressed merchant and a labourer in worn homespun standing side by side at the same courtroom bar. Its picture was also too large and is now capped: illustrations grow to fill a page, but never past about 4.7in, so the artwork can never dominate the writing.

• pipeline/gate.js now checks all of this — voids, pill clearance, pages ending short, and overflow — so it cannot pass unnoticed again.

• Every chapter opener's parent note sat too low. On Chapters Six, Seven and Eight it ended about 0.42in from the trimmed edge, and on Chapter Nine about 0.68in. The design's own rule is 0.9in of clear space at the foot of a page, and KDP wants at least 0.375in on a page that bleeds — near enough to the limit that ordinary trim variation could have flagged it. All four openers were raised; nothing else on those pages moved.
• The print build extended the opener artwork into the bleed by a fixed 6.6in. Chapter Ten's opener image is 5.8in, so its top edge would have printed with an uncovered strip of page colour above it. The build now reads each opener's real height. The same bug would have affected Letter & Chapter One, whose opener band is 6.9in.
• Two Chapter Ten illustrations showed a modern fifty-star flag inside a 1790s courtroom. Both were regenerated without it.
• A band of six chairs was captioned "jury chairs" on the page facing the jury room, which shows twelve. The caption no longer calls them a jury.

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8 · The pass across every chapter — 2026-09-09

Chapters Six through Twelve were all re-cut against the same three rules. What changed:

Pictures must carry the argument, not the topic. This is now the first test in the style bible, ahead of medium, light and period. Eleven pictures failed it and were replaced:

Every page now fills honestly. Fourteen pages that had no illustration at all and were ending one to three inches short have been given one; every other picture grows into its page's leftover space, capped so it can never dominate the writing. No page in any chapter now carries a hole.

One more of his headings restored. Chapter Nine ¶897, "Why do we need just rules?", was not on any page — I had written my own wording over it. It is back on page 89. Chapter Nine ¶898 also read "your team lost" where he wrote "your team lost the game"; his words are restored.

All artwork in all seven chapters was regenerated at the corrected frame sizes. Every image is at or above 300dpi against frame-plus-bleed.

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9 · The overnight build — 2026-09-10 to 11

Every remaining chapter was built in one night by parallel agents, each working to the rules above and each checked by a script, sentence by sentence, against the manuscript in both directions. Chapter-by-chapter changes to his words are in section 2. This section records what changed in the layout and the machinery.

Chapter One — layout, no words changed.

• Pages 10–18 had 0.85in of bottom padding instead of the required 0.9in, which put the content floor a pixel inside the page-number band. All restored to 0.9in.
• The opener's parent note overlapped the page badge by 0.18in; the text block was raised from 8.35in to 8.05in.
• Pictures pinned to the page floor now grow into leftover space (rebalance.py), closing gaps of up to 2.41in.
• Page 11: the Washington picture grew from 2.5 × 3.2in to 3.2 × 4.1in and was regenerated at 303dpi. Page 16 had a real overflow onto the badge, fixed by narrowing the ship picture to 2.6 × 2.15in.
• Two captioned panels sat too close to the text above them (pages 15 and 16); both now clear 0.3in.

Chapters Eleven and Twelve — milestone banners added. Their review pages had no medal and no Bill of Rights strip, so the strip skipped two chapters. Each now opens with the medal ("You finished Chapter Eleven!", "7 of 10"; "…Twelve!", "8 of 10"), exactly as Chapters Five to Ten and Thirteen do. The older progress box at the foot of each page was removed so progress isn't shown twice. No review question changed.

Every review page — a stray space removed. The shared review line printed a space between a blank and its closing full stop ("never ____ ."). Fixed in the builder; Chapter Two was rebuilt.

Pictures. Every chapter now has its artwork, generated to the style bible and looked at one by one. Pictures were rejected and redrawn when they showed lettering, the wrong period (women voting at a 1790s town meeting or in 1870; present-day children in pioneer costume), immodest dress, a cropped head, or a page's topic instead of its argument. Rejected files are kept in each chapter's _rejected folder.

Machinery, recorded so the next build doesn't repeat it.

• Page numbers of 100 and over were read as their first two digits (page 142 as 14), which would have put a bleeding picture's bleed on the wrong edge. Fixed in measure_slots.js.
• The web PDF of Chapter Two first printed with no pictures at all — the 150dpi copies didn't exist and nothing failed. The PDF builder now makes them itself and refuses to build if any are missing.
• The build stages found chapters in a hand-kept table every builder had to edit. They now find chapter files by name (pipeline/chapters.py), so chapters can be built in parallel without overwriting each other.
• pipeline/renumber.py renumbers the whole book in one pass, including each build script's own copy of its page numbers, so a later rebuild can't put old numbers back.

One page added: "My Notes", at the end of Chapter Four. Chapters Two to Four came out one page longer than the old plan assumed, which would have moved every page of Chapters Five to Twelve by an odd number — turning each right-hand page into a left-hand one. Two pictures depend on the side: page 33 of Chapter Five and page 49 of Chapter Six each run off the page's outside edge, and a flip would have run them into the spine instead. Chapter Five is approved, so rather than move its picture, a ruled notes page now closes Chapter Four and every later page keeps the side it was designed for. It carries no words of his and none of substance of mine — a heading, one line of instruction, and writing lines.

Chapters Seven to Twelve — a layout pass, no words changed. Tonight's whole-book check found fourteen captioned panels sitting 0.22–0.30in below the text above them (the rule is 0.30in of visible gap, which needs 0.42in when the block above is rotated), two real overflows onto the page-number band (Chapter Nine's crossword and closing page), a hole on Chapter Twelve's word-search page, and two short pages in Chapter Eleven. Fifty-one spacing edits fixed them all; every changed picture still prints at 300dpi or better, and a text comparison confirms the words on every page are identical to before. All six chapters now pass. Chapters Five and Six, which he has approved, were not touched (G4).

The whole book was renumbered, 1–310, once every chapter existed (G1).

Print resolution — measured on every picture after renumbering. 249 pictures. 237 print at 300dpi or better. Twelve print at 291–299dpi — within 3% of the target, most because a frame grew slightly during tonight's layout fixes (Chapter Two p27; Three p55; Four p65; Seven p110; Nine p138; Eleven pp175, 176, 181, 187; Twelve pp190, 194, 200). The difference cannot be seen in print and KDP accepts it, so they were not regenerated; if he wants every picture strictly at 300, each is a one-line regeneration.

Five pictures were cropping off heads. Some older strip pictures were drawn at the image service's standard 3:2 and set in frames nearly three times as wide as they are tall, so only a band across the middle shows — and the band cut off faces: the host and visitor in Chapter Seven p112; the constable and the woman at the door, the mother on the porch and the father at the door in Chapter Eight pp126, 127 and 130; the mother and son in Chapter Twelve p198. Each picture now crops from nearer its top (object-position: center 10%), which keeps every face whole. No picture was redrawn. Three other strip pictures were checked and already show their faces (Chapter Eight p124, Nine p143, Ten p163).