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The Scout History Project is an grassroots effort to build a complete and accurate history of Scouting. Our goal is to find local experts and invite them to collaborate on a global scale. The project is built upon three basic pillars:

• The Archive (under construction!) will be a massive online, digital library that is freely available for anyone to browse. The basic goal here is to scan, photograph, or otherwise digitize anything that has been stitched, broadcast, or published by any Scouting-related unit or organization in the history of the movement.
• The Wiki is what you're looking at now, and it is currently in its very first stages of development. This is the place where you'll find written histories, timelines, lists of things, and much more.
• The third pillar is a little less defined, but the basic idea is there: I want to record face-to-face interviews with Scouts, Scouters, and anyone else who has been affected by the movement. If I'm sitting down with someone who is historically significant, I might ask them about what makes them significant. This might be a podcast.

The basic objective right now is to get this thing off the ground and prove that it's viable before the 2018 National Order of the Arrow Conference, where I plan to spend my time promoting the project and recruiting contributors.

Notes

• For a list of all 13 articles, click here.
• Edit access to the wiki is restricted to trusted contributors for now.
• To request edit access to the wiki, send an email to chris@dimwell.net.
• To learn more about me, check out User:Chris.

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