The search engine is adequate, although somewhat unintuitive. The default language to operate the database is Spanish, although the menus can be changed to English. Help sheet available. Text in Spanish only. The index is readable with Adobe Acrobat.
Text is entirely in Spanish.
Presents the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the context of American life in the year 1858. Contains video reenactments, political cartoons, popular music, slave narratives, and photo essays, in addition to the full text transcriptions of the debates, in order to help the user understand and interact with the political and social climate of the time. Users can read about hypertext while simultaneously experiencing hands-on its methods and functions. The full text of the work is supplemented with selected readings on pertinent topics such as literary theory and with papers written on hypertext by Landow's students.