On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth.(Book Review) From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Macleod, David | COPYRIGHT 2003 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth. By Jay Mechling (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xxvi plus 323 pp. $30.00).

Although "not a history of the Boy Scouts" (p. xix), On My Honor deftly incorporates much policy history. The result should interest not merely historians of gender, youth, and the recent culture wars but also a wider historical audience. On My Honor demonstrates how history can serve as more than superficial background in int...