Union Army Recruits in Black Regiments in the United States, 1862-1865: [Instructional Materials]

This article uses nineteenth-century evidence to calculate the impact of early exposure to malaria-ridden environments on nutritional status and the immune system in America. I estimate the risk of contracting malarial fevers in the 1850s by using correlations between malaria and environmental factors such as climate and geographical features. The study demonstrates that Union Army recruits who spent their early years in malaria-endemic counties were 1.1 inches shorter at enlistment due to malnutrition and were 13 percent more susceptible to infections during the U.S. Civil War as a result of immune disorders than were those from malaria-free regions.

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Writing Instructions and How-to-do Manuals across Cultures

Intercultural Rhetoric and Professional Communication ◽

10.4018/978-1-61350-450-5.ch010 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 283-317

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Instructional Materials ◽

Units Of Analysis ◽

Writing Instructions ◽

The World ◽

Assembly Instructions

This chapter demonstrates how culture structures and is embedded in instructional manuals around the world. It examines two car repair instructions from Japan and the United States and two charcoal grill assembly instructions. It provides key units of analysis for professional communicators writing instructional materials for intercultural contexts.

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THE PREVALENCE OF ANTIBODIES TO PARASITIC DISEASES IS SERA OF YOUNG ARMY RECRUITS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL

American Journal of Epidemiology ◽

10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a120743 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 86 (2) ◽

pp. 330-340 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

RAUL R. CUADRADO ◽

IRVING G. KAGAN

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Parasitic Diseases ◽

Army Recruits

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Production of Textbooks and Instructional Materials in the United States

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness ◽

10.1177/0145482x0209600403 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 96 (4) ◽

pp. 212-222 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Robert S. Wall ◽

Anne L. Corn

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Visual Impairments ◽

The United States ◽

Instructional Materials ◽

Effective Model ◽

Wide Range

This survey found a wide range of capabilities and issues regarding the production of textbooks and instructional materials for students with visual impairments in 42 states. Shortages of qualified braille transcribers and inadequate funding were often cited as barriers to developing better services. The most effective model of production and delivery was a centralized center in each state.

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Storms Moving in a Ring of Fire

Wired into Nature ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252041778.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

James Schwoch

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Civil War ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Great Plains ◽

The United States ◽

United States Military ◽

Union Army ◽

Signal Corps ◽

The Creation ◽

The Impact

Opening with the impact of the Civil War on telegraphic communications in Washington, this chapter discusses the lack of telegraph security at the onset of the war. Various decisions by Edwin Stanton, Western Union, and telegraph corporations led to the creation of the United States Military Telegraph (USMT) Company, which effectively privatized Union Army telegraph communications and blunted Albert Myer and the Signal Corps. The latter half of the chapter details the increasing conflicts between indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and various militias and Union Army troops, including the Sand Creek Massacre, the Julesburg battles, and the retaliatory actions against the Transcontinental Telegraph and telegraph branch lines by Great Plains warriors in 1865 and 1866.

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