Clicking on these brings up editorials, cartoons, news stories, and illustrations related to the question. The cartoons and illustrations are linked to short explanatory essays. Each item is linked to other related items. O ther sections of the home page invite the visitor to click on biographies and portraits of the protagonists, including Harper's Weekly illustrations, or to a chronological development of Johnson's background and dispute with Congress. The site also reproduces the Articles and the rules for proceeding in the Senate.
Every page has illustrations.
T he material on the site must be accessed in the ways noted above. It is not indexed. If one wishes to find all the allusions to Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase , for instance, one must gain access to the HarpWeek site, which is well indexed. T here are some minor shortcomings. The variety of ways to access the material leads to some repetition.