Une nouvelle application qui permet de suivre le déroulement de la guerre en "temps réel". Vous pouvez vous inscrire et suivre l'évolution du conflit pour les quatre prochaines années!
It’s Day 10. The North has sustained 52 casualties; the South 3. I’m not exhausted at all. Nor hungry. What I am is entertained and slightly anxious. I may even have a touch of “period rush,” as Civil War re-enactors call the intoxication of time-travel. I’ve become spellbound by the History channel’s brilliant-creepy Civil War Today app.
Every few years, someone tries to tap the widespread American obsession with the Civil War, and transform its history into pop entertainment. Some of these projects, like Ken Burns’s 1990 documentary, “The Civil War,” come to canonical glory. Others, like Disney’s proposed American history theme park, meet bitter defeat. It was inevitable that someone in 2011, for the 150th anniversary of the war, would roll the cultural dice again and try to sell Civil War buffs an iPad app.
The Civil War Today app is not an entirely tranquil experience. Its daily helping of manipulatable pixels, which promise to let users “live” the events of the Civil War, bring disturbing news from America’s bloody past. With its newspaper-like format, and new offerings each day of photos, features, games, maps, documents and videos, the app is designed to transform this day into one of the morally overcast days in the spring of 1861, when, as one diarist put it at the time, “a foreboding for the future” weighed on everyone.
The $8 app won’t expire until April 26, 2015, the day John Wilkes Booth will die, again, and we will read all about it, one of countless nation-convulsing events both in the past and now the app’s future.
L'article sur le site du NY Times: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/app-omattox-the-civil-war-goes-virtual/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1
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