Lincoln TelegramsBy Digital History and Pedagogy Project - Free
The Lincoln Telegrams project (http://lincolntelegrams.com) includes over three hundred digitized telegram memos written by President Abraham Lincoln between March 10, 1864 and April 12, 1865. The project is presented by the Digital History and Pedagogy Project (http://dhpp.org) and is the product of collaboration among teacher education students and classroom social studies teachers. This iPad app presents the telegrams and historical analysis conducted by project collaborators.
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iAmerica:The Pocket Guide to United States History and the Presidency – Third Edition - Free
iAmerica is now the #1 most downloaded app out of all US History apps. It is American History at your fingertips!
Included is one of the most comprehensive A to Z reference guide to the Presidents of the United States and a White House website access guide.
The presidential biographies include many hundreds of meticulously hand-assembled Wikipedia links. The links have been carefully researched to provide accurate, context-driven vs. keyword-driven information. You will find it a great improvement over standard Wikipedia links.
iAmerica serves as a portable K-12 academic supplement for students, parents and teachers. We utilize authoritative text and images directly from the White House.
Included is one of the most comprehensive A to Z reference guide to the Presidents of the United States and a White House website access guide.
The presidential biographies include many hundreds of meticulously hand-assembled Wikipedia links. The links have been carefully researched to provide accurate, context-driven vs. keyword-driven information. You will find it a great improvement over standard Wikipedia links.
iAmerica serves as a portable K-12 academic supplement for students, parents and teachers. We utilize authoritative text and images directly from the White House.
iUSA History - $1.99
The USA app is there for this sole purpose. It was designed to make learning history both fun, informative, and beautiful.
The USA app was designed specifically for the iPad. It's amazing on the retina iPad.
Your students will have access to current, updated information for just $1.99 (a lot less than a text book!)
Highlights
+ Freely move your finger to interact with most of everything in the app. (No more boring rows in a table)
+ Learning made easy with different kinds of information presented in different ways.
+ Fit for every range of age, from children to adults.
+ Plenty of actual preserved images of original historical documents.
+ Quick access to state capitals, president quotes, flags, national anthem, and much more.
States' Features
+ Touch a state on the map for detail information about it.
+ Freely move your finger on the map to each state.
+Have all the detail information about all states that one can think of. E.g. statistic, join date, capital, description, state motto, population, and interesting facts states.
Presidents' Features
+ Browsing through the presidents in a very cool way.
+ Quickly see a general description for each president, their ranks, pictures, and names.
+ See detail information about each president with a touch of your finger.
+ See a timeline of all the presidents from the beginning to the current president; just slide your finger.
+ Quick access to all presidents' famous quotes, home states, and interesting facts about them.
Constitution's Features
+ Access to 5 most important set of documents of the United States of America.
+ The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, Amendments, and records of the Founding Fathers.
+ A complete and exact presentations to all of these documents and all of theirs original document's images.
+ Detail biography for all of 55 delegates or Founding Fathers of the United States.
+ National Anthem's lyric and music.
+ The evolution of the United States' Flag
The USA app was designed specifically for the iPad. It's amazing on the retina iPad.
Your students will have access to current, updated information for just $1.99 (a lot less than a text book!)
Highlights
+ Freely move your finger to interact with most of everything in the app. (No more boring rows in a table)
+ Learning made easy with different kinds of information presented in different ways.
+ Fit for every range of age, from children to adults.
+ Plenty of actual preserved images of original historical documents.
+ Quick access to state capitals, president quotes, flags, national anthem, and much more.
States' Features
+ Touch a state on the map for detail information about it.
+ Freely move your finger on the map to each state.
+Have all the detail information about all states that one can think of. E.g. statistic, join date, capital, description, state motto, population, and interesting facts states.
Presidents' Features
+ Browsing through the presidents in a very cool way.
+ Quickly see a general description for each president, their ranks, pictures, and names.
+ See detail information about each president with a touch of your finger.
+ See a timeline of all the presidents from the beginning to the current president; just slide your finger.
+ Quick access to all presidents' famous quotes, home states, and interesting facts about them.
Constitution's Features
+ Access to 5 most important set of documents of the United States of America.
+ The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, Amendments, and records of the Founding Fathers.
+ A complete and exact presentations to all of these documents and all of theirs original document's images.
+ Detail biography for all of 55 delegates or Founding Fathers of the United States.
+ National Anthem's lyric and music.
+ The evolution of the United States' Flag
History Maps of the World - Free
Social studies students are going to be quite familiar with maps by the end of their schooling. However, this app offers an alternative to textbook references and bulky atlases. It features hundreds of fully illustrated maps which can be searched by location or even the era in which they were made. Updates can be downloaded for specific countries and continents as well.
If you are interested in history and geography (history teacher, student or amateur history researcher), check it out to keep with your history and learn something about history.
• Provide 178 historical maps around the world
• Grouping by category or era
• Keyword search
• Display the source about each map
If you are interested in history and geography (history teacher, student or amateur history researcher), check it out to keep with your history and learn something about history.
• Provide 178 historical maps around the world
• Grouping by category or era
• Keyword search
• Display the source about each map
Geo Walk HD World Fact Book - $2.99
Want to know all there is to know about Africa? Open this app, give the globe a spin until you find it and you will see African sights only. With the CATEGORY FILTER, you can choose the category you are curious about, just tap the icon of unwanted category to dismiss itNot only are there quizzes that follow your tour, but this app also features 500 up-to-date description that come with beautiful pictures! There are TWO VIEWING MODES: globe view or card stream mode, so you always have an option QUIZ MODE: multiple choice quiz will let you check and memorize the facts in a playful manner. Yes, it's nearly $3.00, but the beauty of this app is, NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED: you can use your Geo Walk on the go.
National Geographic World Atlas - $1.99
This app is great for researching countries or regions. Contains photos, description, & Basic country facts.
• All National Geographic maps are in HD for retina-displays, giving you the best viewing experience possible.
• New infographics enhance each country's Flags and Facts section.
• Better measurement tools give you even more accuracy.
NEW FEATURES
• Store your pins in the cloud and share them across devices. Plan a trip on your iPad, then use your customized map on your iPhone.
• Add and customize collections of map pins
• Get up-to-the-minute weather
• Check the latest currency conversion rates, or use the currency calculator to convert from one currency to another
• See latitude and longitude indications directly, with a tap of your finger.
FLAGS AND FACTS
Get up-to-date information on every country and capital city in the world, including socio-economic data, demographics, weather, and currency.
*Please Note: this app requires an initial network (cellular or wifi) connection to download maps for offline use.
• All National Geographic maps are in HD for retina-displays, giving you the best viewing experience possible.
• New infographics enhance each country's Flags and Facts section.
• Better measurement tools give you even more accuracy.
NEW FEATURES
• Store your pins in the cloud and share them across devices. Plan a trip on your iPad, then use your customized map on your iPhone.
• Add and customize collections of map pins
• Get up-to-the-minute weather
• Check the latest currency conversion rates, or use the currency calculator to convert from one currency to another
• See latitude and longitude indications directly, with a tap of your finger.
FLAGS AND FACTS
Get up-to-date information on every country and capital city in the world, including socio-economic data, demographics, weather, and currency.
*Please Note: this app requires an initial network (cellular or wifi) connection to download maps for offline use.
Mission US: Think Fast! About the Past - Free
Test your knowledge of history as you race against the clock! Featuring characters from the online role-playing adventure game Mission US, Think Fast! About the Past is a fast-paced trivia game that introduces hundreds of fascinating facts about different eras of American history.
Players can choose from two different Think Fast “missions,” each connected to one of the Mission US adventure games. In Mission 1, the sharp-tongued Patriot Royce Dillingham challenges players to navigate 1770 Boston by answering questions about colonial history. In Mission 2, Lucy King challenges players to deliver a message to her brother, who is enslaved on a plantation in 1850 Kentucky, by answering questions about slavery and resistance during the pre-Civil War era.
Each correct answer advances players to another location on the map. Players have five minutes to move through all ten locations to complete the challenge, but answering correctly more quickly will earn a higher ranking. The clock pauses whenever explanations appear to allow players time to read them. Each “mission” includes approximately 100+ questions randomly served up during the course of the game.
Players can choose from two different Think Fast “missions,” each connected to one of the Mission US adventure games. In Mission 1, the sharp-tongued Patriot Royce Dillingham challenges players to navigate 1770 Boston by answering questions about colonial history. In Mission 2, Lucy King challenges players to deliver a message to her brother, who is enslaved on a plantation in 1850 Kentucky, by answering questions about slavery and resistance during the pre-Civil War era.
Each correct answer advances players to another location on the map. Players have five minutes to move through all ten locations to complete the challenge, but answering correctly more quickly will earn a higher ranking. The clock pauses whenever explanations appear to allow players time to read them. Each “mission” includes approximately 100+ questions randomly served up during the course of the game.
WORLD BOOK - This Day in History for iPad - Free
This Day in History for iPad is an interactive multimedia calendar that displays historical events for the current day or any selected day, along with related media such as photos, illustrations, music, and speeches. You can hear the national anthems of countries on the day they became a nation, listen to presidents’ speeches on the anniversaries of their inaugurations, and play sound clips from famous artists on their birthdays.
Background text that appears for each event concentrates on interesting aspects that you might not know. For example, did you know that Vermont was an independent republic for 14 years before becoming a state and that George Washington at one point considered sending troops to overthrow the Vermont government? Each event also has at least one picture for every event, so you can experience the people and places making each day in history famous. The journey begins here, each and every day.
Background text that appears for each event concentrates on interesting aspects that you might not know. For example, did you know that Vermont was an independent republic for 14 years before becoming a state and that George Washington at one point considered sending troops to overthrow the Vermont government? Each event also has at least one picture for every event, so you can experience the people and places making each day in history famous. The journey begins here, each and every day.
National Archives: Today's Document - Free
Explore American history with 365 of the most fascinating documents and photos from the collections of the US National Archives. Today's Document is an interactive gallery that displays a significant historical document or photo for each day of the year. You can learn what happened on your birthday, search for a document by keyword, or just browse at your leisure.
Featured documents have included popular documents like the Declaration of Independence and Emancipation Proclamation as well as lesser known (but equally fascinating) documents like the Zimmerman Telegram, President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell address, and a handwritten draft of President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 Inaugural Address.
Features:
• Pinch to zoom and inspect individual documents and photos—each rendered as stunning high resolution images.
• Swipe a document left or right to view the previous or next day’s document.
• Use the calendar icon to select a specific date or just browse documents at random.
• Tap the info icon to read fascinating background information (including extensive links to related web sites).
• Add a document to your favorites list by tapping the star icon.
Featured documents have included popular documents like the Declaration of Independence and Emancipation Proclamation as well as lesser known (but equally fascinating) documents like the Zimmerman Telegram, President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell address, and a handwritten draft of President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 Inaugural Address.
Features:
• Pinch to zoom and inspect individual documents and photos—each rendered as stunning high resolution images.
• Swipe a document left or right to view the previous or next day’s document.
• Use the calendar icon to select a specific date or just browse documents at random.
• Tap the info icon to read fascinating background information (including extensive links to related web sites).
• Add a document to your favorites list by tapping the star icon.
Past the Past by WHRO - Free
"Pass The Past" is an educational game to help students prepare for Virginia's Standard's of Learning (SOL) exams with a focus on World, United States and Virginia history, civics, and geography.
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