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. Some of the explanatory material has been perhaps oversimplified for students. The most significant limitation of HarpWeek's Johnson impeachment site is that it offers the perspective of a journal whose positions generally reflected those of centrist Republicans who leaned a bit towards radicalism. If one wants to get a broader picture, one must consult other materials that are not available on the Internet, such as Democratic newspapers and Republican newspapers and journals that represented other views within the party. Thus one could not ask students to compare different perspectives on the Johnson impeachment based solely on this Web site or on materials that can be found on the Internet alone.