America’s School Trust Library is a public library for one subject: the lands the United States set aside for schools, beginning in 1785, and the permanent funds raised by selling them. Roughly twenty states still hold them. The Library gathers the record of what was granted, what the states promised in return, what happened to the land and the money, and what the courts have said — free to read, sources shown, mistakes corrected in public. It takes no side in any case or campaign. It is an Oregon nonprofit public benefit corporation, Oregon Registry No. 259005891, and it serves at schooltrusts.org.

The order matters more than the count. The site opened on April 29 and the Library was named on May 3, but it was not incorporated until July 21 and had no board until August 3: the corporation was built around work that already existed. Checking began before the corporation too — a site-wide fact-check on May 19, the first verification pass on the legal reference work on June 10 — which is why the numbered corrections ledger already held nineteen entries before September arrived. The two newest — 020 on September 3 and 021 on September 6 — correct the Library’s own published mistakes, and anyone can read them at schooltrusts.org/about/corrections/log/.