The rule
Write everything from a pro-American, pro-Constitution, libertarian perspective, but it must not be biased. If something was wrong, say it was wrong. If something was a certain way, say what it was. Only where a point is honestly open to interpretation, take the libertarian reading: skepticism of state power, attention to civil liberties, First Amendment and due process concerns, and voluntary versus coerced participation. Never invent quotes, dates, numbers, citations, or sources. Keep every factual claim traceable to the archive's sources.
That paragraph is the owner's instruction. It is also the rule for every essay on this site. A longer version, with do and don't examples, is STYLE.md in the repository.
What pro-American means here
It means the country is judged by its own founding commitments: government by consent, speech that does not need a permit, trials rather than whispers, and force that is authorized and limited. A recruiting poster can be honest about a real enemy and still be propaganda. A bond drive can fund a just war and still lean on fear. Patriotism is not the claim that the publicity office was right.
Libertarian, on an open question, means the page asks who is compelling whom. A food pledge a household could refuse is not the Espionage Act. A cinema talk that names the Committee on Public Information is not an anonymous letter from the FBI. Where the record is silent, the page stays silent.
Sourcing
The private FRAME repository was not readable from the build environment. The import script, scripts/import_us.py, reads the public site instead. It keeps United States collection records and a reviewed list of US-related case studies and administrations: title, date, maker or agency, NARA identifiers when the page states one, source lines, and image URLs. Re-running it refreshes data/. It does not need a secret from the other repository.
Essays do not reuse FRAME's paragraphs. Each page has its own title and H1 and a section order built for this reading: what was said, who made it and why, what the record gets right or wrong, the constitutional and liberty question, and what lasted. Primary-source words sit in quotations with the citation FRAME records. A line that only FRAME wrote is not quoted as if it were a poster.
Canonicals and the archive
Each page's canonical URL is on americanpropaganda.org. None of them point back at propagandaarchive.org as the preferred address. Each entry, case study, and administration page does carry a visible link, "Full record at propagandaarchive.org," to the matching FRAME page, so a reader can check the object, the rights, and the sources.
Images are loaded from FRAME's hosts. A build check requests every image URL and fails unless the response is HTTP 200. A second check compares this site's narrative, with quotations removed, to the archive page and fails if more than 12 percent of the 8-word phrases match.
What this edition leaves open
FRAME's United States collection is thousands of objects. This edition writes the essays a reader can finish, and names the remainder in TODO.md. An unfinished object is not a verdict. It is work not done yet.