Humanities, Arts & Languages
- 3D Classic Literature Collection
- CliffsNotes Study Guides
Literature study guides for your mobile device give you access to character, theme, and plot summaries and analysis; interactive quiz features; and audio CramCasts.
- Free Books
23,469 Classics To Go - The Ultimate Ebooks And Audiobooks Library In Your Pocket
- Gutenberg Literature
Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks: choose among free ebooks, download them or read them online.
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Shakespeare
The complete works of Shakespeare and a searchable concordance to find the exact word or phrase you’re looking for.
- SwipeSpeare
SwipeSpeare puts the words of the Bard into plain and simple English with a Swipe of a finger!
- 50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic
- Art Authority for iPad
Tansports you to an enthralling, real-world art museum filled with works by over 1,000 of the western world's greatest artists, from ancient times to today.
- Learn to Draw
- Duolingo
Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and English. Totally fun. Totally free.
- MindSnacks
- Earth-Now
Visualizes recent global climate data from Earth Science satellites, including surface air temperature, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, and water vapor as well as gravity and sea level variations.
- EarthViewer
EarthViewer is like a time machine for exploring Earth’s deep history
- GeoQuiz
A wide variety of geographically related material, from capital cities and flags to natural extremes like the highest of the high and coldest of the cold.
- Georeader
Automatically reads out loud to you historical markers and other points of interest as you walk or drive by them!
- NASA Earth As Art
- National Geographic World Atlas
The highest resolution map images available, delivering the stunning detail, accuracy, and beauty National Geographic is known for.
- National Parks
An interactive guide to 25 of America's most visited national parks.
- Thematic Maps of World
Explore the world through interactive maps illustrating geopolitical and geographic shifts over time
- AP History
- Georeader
Automatically reads out loud to you historical markers and other points of interest as you walk or drive by them!
- History:Maps of World
Explore the world through interactive maps illustrating geopolitical and geographic shifts over time
- Historypin
Discover windows into the past by seeing and interacting with the history all around you.
- Holy Roman Emperors
- London - A City Through Time
- MFA Coins
Finally a way to get a close look at ancient coins, enrich your knowledge of classic cultures, and find out why we call them “heads” and “tails.”
- Political Time Machine
Select a president and pick a year... then watch from a collection of nearly 2,000 political videos!
- Streetmuseum™: Londinium
Directs users to locations from Roman London where you can ‘excavate’ finds, using your fingers to dig and gradually reveal ancient artefacts where they were originally found.
- TalkFlash100: People Edition
An introductory crash course designed to familiarize you with the top 100 most famous and influential people in human history.
- The British Monarchy
- The Pyramids
With this beautiful iPad app from Touch Press you can explore the incredible pyramids and tombs of ancient Egypt.
- The Roman Emperors
- Thematic Maps of World
Explore the world through interactive maps illustrating geopolitical and geographic shifts over time.
- Timeline Eons
A graphic representation of the entire natural and human history.
- Timeline WW2 with Dan Snow
A definitive history of the Second World War, presented by TV historian Dan Snow.
- Virtual History - Roma
A fantastic voyage to Ancient Rome, the capital of the largest empire in the ancient world, which you can explore in a “full-immersion” panoramic experience.
- World War II Interactive