Civil War America's Epic Struggle
$4.99
Current Rank:
#6681
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App Details
- Category:
- Reference
- Release Date:
- Jul 15, 2010
- Homepage:
- http://www.multieducat...
- Publisher:
- Multieducator Inc
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The main section of the program includes: an overview of the war; a segment on the war's causes, in-depth entries on each of the major battles (organized both alphabetically and chronologically); multimedia presentations; biographies of Union generals, Confederate generals and non-military personal; a timeline of the war; as well as sub-sections on Washington and Richmond during the war. There are separate sections on railroads, medical care, music (with some sample songs), the Navy, Americans, economics, maps and statistics of the war.
Battle 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 March to the Sea, Shiloh Stone River, Vicksburg, West Virginia and the Wilderness.
The program includes most of the notable photographs in the "Brady Collection". Images and and documents can be marked and saved as "favorites". You can e-mail any photograph or text. ...More
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Civil War: America's Epic Struggle (US$4.99) from MultiEducator Inc. is a full history course in an iPad and iPhone app. It contains at least as much information as most textbooks on the Civil War at a fraction of the cost, while adding elements that no textbook can. There are 24 multimedia presentations, some as long as nine minutes, a nice selection of music popular during the Civil War, and a wonderful navigation system that just makes sense. When starting the app, information can be sorted 18 ways, from a changing Categories bar including Battles (sorted either chronologically or alphabetically), Multimedia Presentations, Statistics and topics like Navy, Economics, Railroads, Music, etc. Depending upon where you are in the app, tapping on Categories brings up a contextual listing of what you can see. For example, tapping on Major Battles Chronologically changes the bar to a listing of battles grouped by year. Tapping on
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Why buy it?
Lee1943
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
It's not clear why you would buy this app except, like me, out of curiosity. All of the material is readily available elsewhere. Citations to sources are lacking, making it unreliable for any serious endeavor. The multimedia presentations seem sketchy and amateurish. Sit down with Wikipedia for a few hours and save your money. I wish I had.
