The Civil War Today

Price: $0.99

Infomation

Category:
Entertainment
By:
A&E Television Networks Mobile
Version:
1.2.3
Released:
2013-04-18
Shared:
2013-12-10
Size:
30.2 MB
Download:
1160
Compatibility:
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.1 or later. Compatible with iPad.

Description

150 years after the start of the American Civil War, HISTORY presents The Civil War Today, an award-winning app created exclusively for the iPad. For less than one penny per day you can experience the war as it unfolded, one day at a time, with daily updates that let you live the events in “real-time” over the course of four years.

***Member of the iTunes App Store Essentials Hall of Fame***

***iTunes App of the Week selection***

The Civil War Today leverages the iPad multi-touch interface to enable app users to feel and explore thousands of original documents, photos, maps, diary entries, quotes, and newspaper broadsheets like never before.

The Civil War Today includes:
• Daily Civil War updates from April 12, 2011 through April 26, 2015. The app content updates ONE DAY AT A TIME, precisely mirroring the events of 150 years ago
• “In the Headlines” featuring newspapers from every day of the war.
• Running tallies of the North and South casualty counts.
• “A Day in the Life” with personal letters and diary entries from 15 individuals including Abraham Lincoln, Horatio Nelson Taft, and Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut.
• Photo of the day and photo galleries.
• Quote of the day.
• Articles and video on featured topics.
• Authentic period maps from key battlegrounds.
• Daily North-South quiz.
• Detailed background scenes that put you in the time and place of the Civil War. (Northern city, Southern plantation, Western frontier town, military camp).
• Twitter integration to send a telegram via morse code.
• GameCenter integration to earn Civil War era appropriate achievements - and display them in a virtual medals case.
• Airplay integration for viewing of app video via Apple TV.
• Advanced multi-finger gesture functionality and custom toolbar for deep navigation.

Witness the Civil War play out 150 years later, one day at a time, in this first-of-its-kind app. HISTORY Made Every Day.

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What's New

This release includes minor bug fixes. As always, please contact us at [email protected] with any feedback or questions.

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Infomation

Category:
Entertainment
By:
A&E Television Networks Mobile
Version:
1.2.3
Released:
2013-04-18
Shared:
2013-12-10
Size:
30.2 MB
Download:
1160
Compatibility:
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.1 or later. Compatible with iPad.