Tips by Tony

To coincide with the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, The History Channel has released The Civil War Today – an app exclusively for the iPad. The app presents a newspaper-like layout with tons of interactivity hiding just beneath the surface, including thousands of original document scans, photographs, maps, diary entries, quotes, and full newspapers for each day of the 4 year war.

The amount of information presented in the app is enormous, but what makes the app most interesting is the ability to experience the war as it unfolded, one day at a time, in real-time. Actual newspaper articles, diary entries from various figures, a running total of casualties for both North and South, and much more make this the most compelling Civil War application I’ve seen.

Check out the gallery below for some additional screenshots from the app:

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