Owl Badges works directly with departments to ensure each badge balances official requirements with community-specific visual ...

The ever-changing roster of Girl Scout and Boy Scout merit badges forms an accidental history of American childhood ... Boys earned a merit badge in automobiling in 1911, when barely one percent ...

"Looking at a slave badge evokes an emotional reaction," says James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University. "There is the ...