SCOUTS OF AMERICA

Boy and Girl Scouts of America

Boy and Girl Scouts of America

Boy Scouts of America

Founded in 1907, in England, by Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) began in the United States in 1910 and chartered in 1911, becoming the only national organization charged by Congress to educate American boys. The Boy Scouts were founded by Baden-Powell as a response to what he saw as a crisis of masculinity in the British Empire.

Boy scouting teaches masculinity by focusing on five strategies: character building, handicrafts, bodily development, promoting a sense of happiness, and service to others. Baden-Powell emphasized these ...