History Here for iPhone is a clever take on travel discovery apps. The app comes from The History Channel and A&E Networks. In a nutshell, the app knows where you are and what historical sites are near you. It could be a National Park, a Civil War Battlefield, a museum, a Western fort or more. When you find a place, click on it and youll get information on the location, the destination website if there is one, and a way to forward it to friends. One thing I like is that the app is not based on Wikipedia info. That info is usually very good, but most similar apps use the same data source and I appreciate there is different content with History Here. Of course, I would have appreciated Wikipedia links too, but alas, there arent any. History Here worked well, although I had a couple of crashes where the app suddenly put up a blank screen and the only way out was to force quit the app. I think History Here works better when you are at a destination, rather than as a planning app. It is rea
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