America's Civil War

America's Civil War

By Historycentral.com

  • Category: Reference
  • Release Date: 2010-07-15
  • Current Version: 4.1
  • Adult Rating: 12+
  • File Size: 969.05 MB
  • Developer: Historycentral.com
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 13.0 or later.

Description

CIVIL WAR: AMERICA'S EPIC STRUGGLE features over 1,000 high-resolution photos many of them colorized, more than an hour of multimedia presentations, in excess of 100 authentic maps, dozens of first-hand accounts, and numerous text articles and biographies. The program provides instantaneous access to information on every aspect of the Civil War. The app automatically optimizes images and text depending upon the display: iPad, Retina, or iPhone; portrait or landscape orientation. With 18 different easily navigable categories, CIVIL WAR: AMERICA'S EPIC STRUGGLE provides a moving experience of the history of the Civil War for both the casual browser and serious history buff. The zoomable black and white photographs are very high resolution and bring the text and narration to life. This reference work includes most of the notable photographs in the "Matthew Brady Collection." In addition, over 100 period maps illustrate the progress of various campaigns geographically. CONTENT CATEGORIES: * Overview (10 minute multimedia presentation) * Causes of the War (6 minute multimedia presentation plus 25 illustrated articles) * Major Battles Alphabetically (32 chapters, over 450 articles and photos, 24 multimedia) * Major Battles Chronologically (32 chapters, over 450 articles and photos, 24 multimedia) * Multimedia Presentations (over 60 minutes with hundreds of photos and narration) * Biographies (Union Generals, Confederate Generals and historical figures) * Timeline (5 different years 1861 - 1865, 52 monthly timelines) * Washington (5 timelines, 18 documents, 49 photos) * Richmond (5 timelines, 1 document, 4 photos) * Railroads (50 photos, 3 minute multimedia presentation) * Medical Care (2 minute multimedia presentation, 1 article, 53 photos) * Music (6 songs as audio files, 6 sets of lyrics in text) * Navy (54 monthly timelines, 31 photos) * Americans (overview and the roles of 6 different ethnic groups) * America (introduction and 13 articles on American life during the Civil War) * Maps (18 locales, over 100 maps) Battles covered in-depth include: Antietam, Atlanta, Bull Run, Second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Fredericksburg, Fort Donelson, Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Missouri, Mobile Bay, Monitor vs. Virginia, Nashville, New Orleans, Pea Ridge, The Peninsular Campaign, Petersburg Roanoke Island, Seven Days, Sherman's March to the Sea, Shiloh Stone River, Vicksburg, West Virginia, and the Wilderness. The entire contents of CIVIL WAR: AMERICA'S EPIC STRUGGLE are searchable using the pop-up keyboard to enter any term. Recently viewed pages are stored, so the user may return to them easily. The app also features integrated e-mail connectivity to send any pictures or articles over the Internet, as well as a favorites section for frequently viewed material. Images and documents can be marked and saved as "favorites". You can e-mail any photograph or text.

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Reviews

  • This app is a mess of content

    2
    By Tommy Bahama
    The concept is a good one, but the execution is quite amature-ish. The content is not well laid out, and the multi-media presentations contain music that plays over top of the narration, making it impossible to understand what is being said. The animations are jerky, not well choreographed, and have photos inexplicably interspersed at the oddest moments, making the flow of presentations hard to follow. Some text is large enough to read easily. Other text is extremely small and very difficult to read with no option to zoom. Obvious that the app author cut and paste content from other sources in a hodge-podge presentation. Overally, content appears completely plagiarized for quick completion / quick sale. Seriously, appears as though a group of high school kids put this app together. Quite disappointing for the price.

  • Civil war

    3
    By EddieB50
    Although slavery was one of the major issues of this war, very little is said about the African Americans in this conflict. In the section "Americans" many ethnic groups are represented, but not African Americans. This section should be updated to include that ethnic group.

  • Really poor GUI

    1
    By Eriptron
    I disagree. The app is worth something!!! But while there is a wealth of information in this app there isn't any font adjustment and some of the text font size is just stupid small. If you zoom the page the text doesn't reformat and it turns into a scroll-a-thon to read the text. Can not zoom individual images and zooming the page doesn't go far enough to see any details on many of the maps and images. Really poorly designed GUI.

  • Worst. App. Ever.

    1
    By unitedglory
    There really isn't much to say except that the interface is horrible, info is disjointed and hard to read and this app isn't worth anything. I repeat. Anything.

  • Book Report

    2
    By TCVA81
    A disappointing app for the price. A lot of information is provided, but it is basically in the form of a long book report that could just as easily be grabbed off of an online encyclopedia. I assume that much of the text is original writing for copyright issues, but some parts are amateurish... Battlefield maps are static and low resolution, and the pictures and limited videos look like publicly available snippets from an old PBS special. It's as if they took their 'Programming for Apple Devices 101' class, built the app, inserted some free content, and tried to fill-in the blanks. The app is not interactive and does not harness the power of the iPad. App would be okay as a not-so-quick reference substitute, or you could buy and actual eBook from a publisher.

  • A waste of time and $

    1
    By Cw buff
    Content is very top level, with no details. Sounds on videos mixes too loud music, suddenly drowning out (the top level) description of the events. Graphics are shown only briefly, and there are very few. Maps show the view from outer space, so no details. Just read your elementary school history book instead of suffering through this amateur attempt. It looks like it was thrown together in one day.

  • Will not load to my I Phone

    1
    By Dr.Lap
    I should have listened to the reviews. And saved $5.00 dollars. Any body having this problem pleas let me know how you fixed this problem.

  • If you buy this you'll regret it

    1
    By camstern
    This app cries out: the people who built this app just don't care. The frequent misspellings - commonly so basic and obvious they would have been caught in a casual read through by any fourth grader - distract and make plain that the material can't be trusted. Bad that this was released with so many mistakes, worse that the mistakes haven't been fixed. If you care about accuracy, or integrity of historical materials, or if you don't like spending money on shoddy, third-rate workmanship, this is one to pass on.

  • It had potential

    2
    By Spud1978
    Multimedia doesn't work. Information incomplete. Hopefully updates will fix the problems. Until then I wouldn't buy this app

  • A great idea but ...

    1
    By Upneguy
    This app is about the Civil War, yes WAR, with major articles on many interesting facets of the war EXCEPT the weapons of the war. So if you want to learn about the rifles, or cannons, or innovations made in weapons of war that made the killing so efficient and so heartbreaking, you won't learn it here. Without these weapons there would have been no war. Without a discussion of them this only rates one star.

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