Journal articles: 'Boy Scouts of America'

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Pynes, Joan E. "The Boy Scouts of America: Slowly Changing." Journal of Homosexuality 63, no. 1 (August 5, 2015): 52–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2015.1078652.

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Girard, John M., Mark Levy, Julie Ellner, and Tao Kwan-Gett. "Boy Scouts of America Policy on Homosexuality." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 155, no. 3 (March 1, 2001): 417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.155.3.417.

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Arneil, Barbara. "Gender, Diversity, and Organizational Change: The Boy Scouts vs. Girl Scouts of America." Perspectives on Politics 8, no. 1 (March 2010): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592709992660.

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After growing for decades, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts both experienced a dramatic drop in membership during the 1970s. Since then their membership patterns have diverged as the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) continues to decline and the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has reached near record numbers. These patterns raise two questions: Why the decline? And why the divergence? On the cause of decline, I argue that a younger civil rights generation, informed by a new set of post-materialist values, did not join traditional organizations like the BSA and GSUSA because their values were deemed to be outdated. The challenge for traditional organizations therefore was how to respond. Using path dependency theory, I argue that BSA and GSUSA—shaped by their own unique origins and identities—responded very differently to the critical juncture of the civil rights generation, which in turn explains the subsequent divergence in membership patterns from the 1980s onward. While the BSA rejects such changes in order to defend traditional values, the GSUSA, which established a commitment to challenging gender norms from its birth, embraces the new values and adapts virtually every aspect of its organizational identity to this new generation. As young people see themselves reflected back in the values endorsed by the GSUSA, its membership resurges, while the BSA continues to decline. I conclude by drawing out larger theoretical lessons on the meaning of change in American civil society in light of an increasingly diverse population.

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Hintz, Rachel, and Barbara Thomson. "Geoscience Education in the Boy Scouts of America." Journal of Geoscience Education 60, no. 2 (June 13, 2012): 159–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5408/09-192.1.

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Simonelli, Jeanne. "Collaborative Ethnography and Public Engagement: Crafting a New Peer Review." Practicing Anthropology 33, no. 2 (April 1, 2011): 45–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.33.2.g6160056309g2882.

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Every spring for the last three years the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at Wake Forest University (WFU) has sponsored Boy Scout Day as one of several family oriented Saturday activity sessions. Most of the "Family Days" are exhibit related, providing active extensions to museum designed and community advised thematic presentations. Boy Scout Day is a different phenomenon, designed in part to add "authenticity" to the decades old practice of young boys dressing up as Indians in order to earn proficiency badges. With up to 200 Scouts and their leaders in attendance, the activity has had mixed reception among the principals involved. Boy Scouts love throwing atlatls, learning to flint knap and hearing Native American stories. Anthropology faculty members are skeptical, wondering about the implications of the continued Scout-Indian relationship. Local Native American groups have had an increasing presence, first as vendors, and then as advisors and participants. But has this taken us past a 1950s-era popular notion of what Native Americans are all about, and beyond this, the relationship between anthropology, museums and the indigenous? The following pages explore the ways in which a model of ethnographic collaboration can inform and expand the growing call for public engagement as a motivation for academic/community relationships.

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Pentecost, Samantha. "Gendering the Boy Scouts: Examining Hegemonic Masculinity at a Co-Ed Backpacking Camp." Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography 10, no. 2 (October 19, 2020): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15273/jue.v10i2.10350.

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Masculinity has been studied in various outdoor settings, including the industries of ecotourism, outdoor education, and forestry. However, few studies have examined how physical space contributes to the construction of hegemonic masculinity in organizations associated with nature and the outdoors. This study relies on nine in-depth interviews conducted with outdoor educators and sixteen hours of ethnographic research completed at Mountain View Scout Camp, a backpacking program for youth operated by the Boy Scouts of America. Findings indicate that Mountain View is gendered both through its organizational aesthetics, which valorize a hegemonically masculine ideal, and via sta members’ conception of nature as feminine and forestry work and tools as masculine. Results also suggest that men employed at Mountain View will occasionally embody a hybrid masculine gender performance by utilizing non-hegemonic traits of masculinity such as pro-feminist ideas. However, these episodic masculine performances also serve to subtly reproduce gender inequalities by accepting only a speci c type of woman and rewarding men for super cial allyship.

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Potts, Lawrence F. "The youth protection program of the Boy Scouts of America." Child Abuse & Neglect 16, no. 3 (January 1992): 441–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0145-2134(92)90053-t.

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Daley, Sean, Jason Hale, Shelly Bointy, T. Smith, Charley Lewis, Julia Soap, Chandler Williams, Christina Pacheco, and Christine Daley. "For $1,000 You Can Be a Dog Soldier: The Tribe of Should-Be-Ashamed." Practicing Anthropology 37, no. 2 (April 1, 2015): 17–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.37.2.9x51g19018v8r461.

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The use of American Indian imagery, material culture, and cultural traditions by non-Native peoples has received much recent attention by scholars, activists, and the media. However, most of the attention has been focused on sports teams and mascots. One area that has received little attention is the appropriation of Indian imagery and traditions by non-sports related organizations. This article details a recent meeting between members of the American Indian Health Research and Education Alliance (AIHREA) and leaders from the Tribe of the Mic-O-Say. The Tribe of the Mic-O-Say is a Boy Scouts of America™ honor society for Scouts in eastern Kansas and western Missouri who want to "play Indian." The Mic-O-Say have a long history of misappropriating and misrepresenting Indian culture and traditions as well as engaging in cultural imperialism. This alienates Native people from their traditions, undermines self-determination, and creates further animosity and distrust between Natives and non-Natives.

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Johnson, Corey W. "Twenty-Plus Years of Exclusion in the Boy Scouts of America." SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education 30, no. 2 (September 2015): 70–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.18666/schole-2015-v30-i2-6638.

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Talarico, Donna. "5 questions with: Carrie Phillips of University of Arkansas at Little Rock." Enrollment Management Report 28, no. 2 (April 10, 2024): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/emt.31227.

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Carrie Phillips is the Chief Communications and Marketing Officer at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Phillips has a Doctorate of Education from Texas Tech University. Prior to her role at UA Little Rock, she spent more than a decade in marketing at Arkansas Tech University. Active in the industry and in her community, Carrie also serves on various boards and committees, including the Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE), American Marketing Association, Higher Education Web Professionals, and the Boy Scouts of America. She's a frequent speaker on the higher ed conference circuit.

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Talarico, Donna. "5 questions with: Carrie Phillips of University of Arkansas at Little Rock." Successful Registrar 24, no. 3 (April 15, 2024): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tsr.31285.

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Carrie Phillips is the Chief Communications and Marketing Officer at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Phillips has a Doctorate in Education from Texas Tech University. Prior to her role at UA Little Rock, she spent more than a decade in marketing at Arkansas Tech University. Active in the industry and in her community, Carrie also serves on various boards and committees, including the Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE), American Marketing Association, Higher Education Web Professionals, and the Boy Scouts of America. She's a frequent speaker on the higher ed conference circuit.

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Moreno-Luzón, Javier. "‘Seeds of Spain’: Scouting, Monarchy and National Construction, 1912–1931." European History Quarterly 50, no. 2 (April 2020): 226–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691420910944.

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The official Spanish branch of the international Boy Scout movement, the Exploradores de España, offers an instructive example of a nationalist association in Spain in the first third of the twentieth century. This article adopts a comparative perspective and studies the Exploradores discourses and practices, the association’s founders and leaders, the scouts’ publications and activities, as well as the organization’s internal conflicts and evolution between 1912 and 1931. As in Britain and many other countries, the movement was endorsed by the royal family and led by military officers and middle-class men – representatives of monarchist civil society. It shared nationalist and regeneracionista (from regenerationism) values, as an agent of nationalization throughout Spanish territory. Like other Boy Scout movements in Europe and the Americas, it pursued the goal of making good patriots, with a knowledge of and ready to defend their fatherland: young hidalgos, the Spanish equivalent of the British gentlemen. Hence this study also explores the gender aspects of Boy Scout ideals. Initially, the Spanish scouts were troubled by an intense religious conflict, which was won by Catholic sectors, so their nationalism became deeply conservative. During the 1920s, the movement was instrumental in the nation-building projects of different governments, especially under the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera (1923–1930). In short, it can be considered one of the main nationalizing agents during this key period in modern Spanish history, and belies the image of supposed passivity and a lack of interest in national construction among Spain’s ruling elites.

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Presant, Cary, Sean Presant, John Mack, G. Burnham Atterbury, Richard French, and Teri Schroeder. "Youth cancer education through a combined American cancer society-boy scouts of America pilot program." Journal of Cancer Education 2, no. 4 (1987): 229–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08858198709527892.

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Kim, Young-Il, Sung Joon Jang, and Byron R. Johnson. "Tying Knots With Communities." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 45, no. 6 (July 9, 2016): 1113–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764016634892.

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Using data from a nationally representative sample of American adult males ( N = 2,512), this study examines (a) whether duration of membership in the Boy Scouts of America is associated with adult civic engagement and (b) whether five characteristics of positive youth development (confidence, competence, connection, character, and caring) account for the relationship between duration of Scouting membership and adult civic engagement. The results from structural equation modeling indicate that duration of participation in Scouting is positively associated with four indicators of civic engagement: community involvement, community volunteering, community activism, and environmental activism. Among the five positive characteristics, confidence and competence were found to fully mediate the effects of Scouting on all four types of civic engagement, whereas the other three only to partly mediate the effects.

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Jordan, Ben. "Boy Scouts of America: A Centennial History, and: The Scouting Party: Pioneering and Preservation, Progressivism and Preparedness in the Making of the Boy Scouts of America (review)." Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 5, no. 2 (2012): 343–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2012.0026.

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Hershberg, Rachel M., Paul A. Chase, Robey B. Champine, Lacey J. Hilliard, Jun Wang, and Richard M. Lerner. "You Can Quit Me But I’m Not Going to Quit You:” A Focus Group Study of Leaders’ Perceptions of Their Positive Influences on Youth in Boy Scouts of America." Journal of Youth Development 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 5–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2015.406.

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As part of a longitudinal, mixed-method study with Boy Scouts of America, we conducted five focus groups with a diverse group of 46 program leaders in order to better understand their perceptions of how they influence youth. Drawing from grounded theory analysis methods, we found that leaders believed they promoted positive youth outcomes, including character and self-confidence, through caring youth-leader relationships and facilitating opportunities for youth to participate in and lead skill-building activities and apply skills in different contexts. Leaders differed in the particular outcomes that they emphasized. Implications of these findings for future research and practice are discussed.

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Strutt, George F., and Jonathan M. Solomon. "Exploring: An Extracurricular Career Awareness Program in Psychology for High School Students." Teaching of Psychology 14, no. 3 (October 1987): 174–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15328023top1403_13.

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This article describes a career awareness program in psychology sponsored by the Central New York Psychological Association (CNYPA) and the Hutchings Psychiatric Center in association with the Exploring Division of the Boy Scouts of America. The Explorer post, a coeducational and low budget program, served an average of 75 high school students in each of its first 3 years. The program's goals are to provide a familiarity with the field of psychology, with its educational requirements and occupational opportunities, and with the work lives of psychologists. Monthly meetings include presentations by psychologists in their areas of expertise, followed by small group discussions. We also describe the program's benefits and costs.

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Terry, Jr., Robert. "Development and Evolution of Agriculturally Related Merit Badges Offered by the Boy Scouts of America." Journal of Agricultural Education 54, no. 2 (June 30, 2013): 70–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5032/jae.2013.02070.

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Balcerski, Thomas J. "Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America: Citizenship, Race, and the Environment, 1910–1930." Journal of American History 104, no. 1 (June 2017): 227–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jax084.

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Lyons, Robin R. "The Community Service-Minded Geographer: Geography and the Boy Scouts of America Merit Badge Program." Journal of Geography 91, no. 1 (January 1992): 24–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221349208979333.

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Ferziger, Adam S., and Hillel D. Spielman. "Reverence and Integration: Boy Scouts, Jewish Camping and American Orthodoxy." American Jewish History 101, no. 3 (2017): 271–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2017.0045.

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Parille, Ken, Kenneth Kidd, Jay Mechling, Victoria Cann, and Edward W. Morris. "Editorial Board Reflections on Formative Books and Other Media." Boyhood Studies 15, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2022): 183–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2022.15010212.

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Reading Characters, People, and PropertiesIn this piece, I reflect on superhero comic books I read in my childhood and adolescence, noting that as I collected and read stories featuring the character known as the Silver Surfer, I slowly began to realize that the character’s traits, as established in the first comic in which he appeared, seemed to change in comics published later. In searching for explanations for these changes, I began to pay attention to a comic’s credits, recognizing that different writers and artists understood the character in different ways and often felt no obligation to maintain a consistent approach. I eventually realized that a comic’s credits sometimes misrepresented the labor invested by each of the story’s creators. This long process led to an ongoing interest—in both my writing and teaching—in the ways that our interpretation of a story and its characters can be enriched by understanding the conditions under which it was produced.Books of the HeartWhat might reflecting on favorite books from our childhood tell us about our past and current selves? This short meditation on that question first considers reading memoirs and experiments in rereading, and then reviews some favorite books from the author’s own childhood, speculating on their appeal and potential significance for identity consolidation.The Fantasy of the Boy Scout HandbookBorn and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, I opened my new Boy Scouts of America Handbook for Boys in the summer of 1956, at age 11, in anticipation of moving from the Cub Scouts to the Boy Scouts that fall. I found in those pages a fantasy that moved me deeply, a romantic fantasy of hiking and camping in the wilderness with a band of boy buddies. That fantasy has deep roots in fiction for boys and in books like the Handbook, appealing to the boy’s desire to escape the surveillance and control of adults and to fashion a community of “lost boys” in a wilderness setting ideal for strong male bonding in friendship.“I Never Had Any Friends Later on Like the Ones I Had When I Was Twelve. Jesus, Does Anyone?”: Reflections on Learning about Boyhood through Stand by MeThis piece offers reflections on the 1986 movie Stand by Me, drawing on some of the main themes and contextualizing them in relation to my own childhood as a girl growing up in the 1990s. I reflect on how in my rewatch of the movie, I was struck by the ways that the class positions of the boys echoed my own experiences of transition and liberation through education. I also reflect on the significance of seeing boys cry and be scared—feelings that the boys at my school were policed out of performing in public.Boy Genius: Reflections on Reading The Great BrainBased on reflection and analysis of a formative childhood text, this essay disentangles the relationship between reading, intelligence, and masculinity. The author argues that although reading fiction appears to encourage empathy, books written specifically for boys may contain detrimental messages about masculinity. The analysis reveals that the popular Great Brain series reinforces notions of whiteness, ableism, and masculine superiority. These messages are reinforced by the books’ emphasis on pragmatic “genius” and the savior trope in boyhood.

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Novick, Marsha B., Erik Lehman, and Ronald J. Williams. "Evaluation of BMI in obese adolescents at weight-loss camp with the Boy Scouts of America." Paediatrics and Health 3, no. 1 (2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7243/2052-935x-3-1.

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Bender, Nathan E. "On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth." Journal of American Folklore 117, no. 463 (January 1, 2004): 108–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4137624.

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Bender, Nathan E. "On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth (review)." Journal of American Folklore 117, no. 463 (2004): 108–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0006.

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Mogren, Eric W. "Benjamin René Jordan. Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America: Citizenship, Race, and the Environment, 1910–1930." American Historical Review 122, no. 3 (June 2017): 860–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.3.860.

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Leslie, W. Bruce. "Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920. David I. MacLeod." American Journal of Education 93, no. 2 (February 1985): 303–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/443798.

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Willard, Michael Nevin. "Book Review: On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth." YOUNG 14, no. 2 (April 12, 2006): 173–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/110330880601400210.

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Baranowski, Tom, Janice Baranowski, Karen W. Cullen, Carl deMoor, LaTroy Rittenberry, David Hebert, and Lovell Jones. "5 a Day Achievement Badge for African-American Boy Scouts: Pilot Outcome Results." Preventive Medicine 34, no. 3 (March 2002): 353–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/pmed.2001.0989.

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McCord, Kelley A., and Jan Scholl. "Common Courtesies: Teaching Young People American Etiquette Through 4-H." Journal of Youth Development 2, no. 3 (March 1, 2008): 144–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2008.341.

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The new youth resource guide, “Common Courtesies and First Impressions: A 4-H Life Skills Activity Guide to Modern American Etiquette,” is designed to help teenagers understand the significance and positive impact of using proper etiquette in today’s society. Though designed with 4-H members in mind, the guide employs the social theory of learning by emphasizing learning in a social setting with a group of one’s peers. It could be employed easily in any youth group setting, including Campfire, Boy & Girl Scouts, or Parks & Rec. It will help to build positive social skills by providing answers to such questions as how to behave and react in social situations.

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Alexander, Kristine. "Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America: Citizenship, Race, and the Environment, 1910–1930 by Benjamin René Jordan." Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 10, no. 3 (2017): 451–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2017.0055.

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Rico, Monica. "Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America: Citizenship, Race, and the Environment, 1910–1930. By Benjamin René Jordan." Environmental History 22, no. 4 (July 13, 2017): 752–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emx079.

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Hannickel, Erica. "Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America: Citizenship, Race, and the Environment, 1910–1930 by Benjamin René Jordan." Journal of Southern History 83, no. 2 (2017): 455–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/soh.2017.0132.

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JORDAN, BENJAMIN R. "Our Frontier is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy." History: Reviews of New Books 47, no. 2 (March 4, 2019): 28–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2019.1565018.

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Balcerski, Thomas J. "Our Frontier Is the World: the Boy Scouts in the age of American ascendancy." Social History 44, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 136–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2019.1549773.

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Fitzpatrick, Shanon. "Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy." Journal of American History 106, no. 2 (September 1, 2019): 501–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaz448.

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Burnham, Thomas A., and Jeffrey A. Wong. "Factors influencing successful net promoter score adoption by a nonprofit organization: a case study of the Boy Scouts of America." International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing 15, no. 4 (October 27, 2018): 475–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12208-018-0210-x.

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Farley, William. "Troops and Tribes: Masculinity, Playing Indian, and the Social Politics of Ernest Thompson Seton's Expulsion from the Boy Scouts of America." Connecticut History Review 60, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/26395991.60.2.04.

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Graebner, William. "Norman Rockwell and American Mass Culture: The Crisis of Representation in the Great Depression." Prospects 22 (October 1997): 323–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000156.

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By the summer of 1929, Norman Rockwell was a full-fledged success. At age thirty-five, he had been creating covers for the Saturday Evening Post for thirteen years. A generation of American youth had grown up beguiled by his illustrations for Boys' Life, St. Nicholas, and the Boy Scouts' calendar. For more than a decade, Rockwell's artistry had helped sell Adams Black Jack gum, American Mutual insurance, Sun Maid raisins, and Coca-Cola. As this commercial success modulated into social success, Rockwell, whose father had risen to middle-class respectability in the offices of a New York City textile firm, found himself living the good life in the artists' colony of suburban New Rochelle. The drab apartments and boardinghouses of his youth and adolescence had been left behind. He joined the Larchmont Yacht Club, golfed in clothes from Brooks Brothers, and hosted elaborate parties worthy of Jay Gatsby.

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Wang, Jun, Robey B. Champine, Kaitlyn A. Ferris, Rachel M. Hershberg, Daniel J. Warren, Brian M. Burkhard, Shaobing Su, and Richard M. Lerner. "Is the Scoutreach Initiative of Boy Scouts of America Linked to Character Development among Socioeconomically, Racially, and Ethnically Diverse Youth?: Initial Explorations." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 46, no. 10 (June 29, 2017): 2230–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0710-8.

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Macleod, David I. "Mischa Honeck. Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy." American Historical Review 124, no. 5 (December 1, 2019): 1913–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz1136.

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Ferris, Kaitlyn A., Rachel M. Hershberg, Shaobing Su, Jun Wang, and Richard M. Lerner. "Character Development among Youth of Color from Low-SES Backgrounds: An Examination of Boy Scouts of America’s ScoutReach Program." Journal of Youth Development 10, no. 3 (May 17, 2016): 14–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2015.6.

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This study examined character attributes associated with participation in ScoutReach, Boy Scouts of America’s recent program innovation created to deliver Scouting curriculum to underserved populations. Participants were predominantly Black/African American (72.9%; N = 266, Mage = 10.54, SD = 1.58) and resided in low-income urban communities. Youth completed surveys assessing how much they embody different character attributes (e.g., kindness, helpfulness, hopeful future expectations), and a subset of youth (n = 22) also participated in semi-structured interviews examining character-shaping experiences within the program. Results replicated an eight-factor character structure established with youth involved in traditional Scouting programs, and indicated that involvement in ScoutReach may positively contribute to the development in youth of prosocial behaviors, future career goals, tolerance beliefs, and the manifestation of character attributes across Scouting and non-Scouting contexts. Together, these findings have implications for measuring character constructs among youth of color from low-SES backgrounds, and for the conduct of youth-serving character development programs more generally.

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Fieldston, Sara. "Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy. By Mischa Honeck." Journal of Social History 53, no. 3 (November 23, 2018): 840–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shy107.

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Hinnershitz, Stephanie. "Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy by Mischa Honeck." Journal of Southern History 85, no. 3 (2019): 724–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/soh.2019.0215.

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Longres, John F. "Re-Educating Troubled Youth. Environments for Teaching and Treatments, and Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870–1920." Social Work 30, no. 1 (January 1, 1985): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/30.1.88.

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Schulz, Joy. "Making Men into Boys: How the Boy Scouts of America Put on the Uniform of U.S. Imperialism and Became the Face of Twentieth-Century Masculinity." Diplomatic History 43, no. 5 (August 21, 2019): 956–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhz030.

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Barnes, Liberty. "Holiday Gifting at a Children’s Hospital: Sacred Ritual, Sacred Space." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48, no. 5 (December 26, 2018): 591–618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241618820110.

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Every Christmas season children’s hospitals in the United States are flooded with gift donations. Businesses, service organizations, and the public deliver carloads of new toys, puzzles, games, books, electronics, sports equipment, art supplies, cosmetics, blankets, and clothing for sick children. The practice is so common and widespread that donors rarely ask whether they may donate, what types of donations are welcome, and when and where they should deliver their donations. Based on ethnographic observations of holiday gifting at University Children’s Hospital, a nationally ranked pediatric hospital on the West Coast, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the implicit cultural beliefs that guide holiday gifting practices. Eschewing the popular rhetoric of American hyper-consumption and hedonism, I use a Durkheimian framework to argue that holiday gifting in children’s hospital is a sacred ritual. The data presented describe the wide-ranging variety of donors—from Boy Scouts to nightclub strippers—who journey to the hospital bearing gifts. Drawing on sacred conceptualizations of childhood and gifting in American culture, I argue that children’s hospitals are more than medico-scientific institutions. They represent sacred unifying spaces and the heart of their local communities where individuals and organizations come to privately and publicly reaffirm their moral commitments to society through holiday gifting.

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Rodgers, D. T. "Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920. By David I. Macleod (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. xx plus 404 pp.)." Journal of Social History 19, no. 1 (September 1, 1985): 163–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jsh/19.1.163.

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Magrass, Yale. "Book Reviews : Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920 by David Macleod. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. 464 pp. Hardcover, $27.50." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 9, no. 1 (March 1985): 47–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019372358500900108.

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Swab, John J. "Mapping a Nation: Daniel Carter Beard’s Time as a Surveyor for the Sanborn Map Company." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-359-2019.

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Abstract. Fire insurance maps produced by the American firm the Sanborn Map Company have long served as cartographic guides to understanding the history of urban America. Primarily used by cultural and historical geographers, historians, historic preservationists, and environmental consultants; historians of cartography have little explored the history of this company. While this scholarship has addressed various facets of Sanborn’s history (Ristow, 1968), no scholarly piece has explored the lived experience of being a Sanborn surveyor. This lack of scholarship comes not from any significant oversight but rather from the fact that the contributions of most Sanborn surveyors were anonymous and little recorded on the maps themselves. Moreover, the company itself has done little to save its own history, thus little is known of their individual stories and experiences. The exception to this is perhaps the most famous Sanborn surveyor of all: Daniel Carter Beard.Over the course of his nine-decade life, Daniel Carter Beard held several prominent positions including the co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America and the lead illustrator for many of Mark Twain’s novels. However, he got his start as a surveyor for the Sanborn Map Company in the 1870s, just a few years after its founding. His papers, housed at the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, includes a variety of ephemera from his time with the Sanborn Map Company.Trained in civil engineering, Beard got his start as a surveyor for the Cincinnati (Ohio) Office of Platting Commission, creating the first official plat map for the city. He was hired by Sanborn in 1874 and served as a surveyor until 1878, traveling extensively over the eastern half of the United States, parlaying his skills into creating fire insurance maps for Sanborn. Thus, this paper speaks to two main themes. The first theme traces the route of Beard during his early years with the company across the eastern half of the United States, documenting both the places he visited and the challenges he faced as a Sanborn surveyor. The second theme, interwoven through the paper, is an analysis of the innerworkings of Sanborn’s administrative structure and its relationship with the larger fire insurance market during the 1870s. Altogether, these documents present unique insight into the organization of the Sanborn Map Company and how it produced its maps during the second-half of the 19th century.

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