First Bull Run battlefield. Photograph taken in 1862. The Library of Congress. F rom the standpoint of the user rather than the historian there are also problems. The window displaying videos and other graphics is too small, taking up less than one-fourth of the screen.
Links tend to be redundant.
It also seems as though the creators tired of their project. After including a number of links for the first three years in the chronology section, they include only two in 1865, including one on General George A. Custer unrelated to the final months of the war. Yet the material is not integrated particularly well. Links are repetitive and often unrelated to the events to which they are connected. It seems as though the developers tried to include the categories of information that viewers would expect to see and gave little thought to an overall interpretation.