Contact Information
Office: 207 Powers Hall
Phone: (989) 774-3452
Email: macle1d@cmich.edu
Spotlight on Faculty Research
Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their
Forerunners, 1870-1920 (paperback 2004).
David Macleod
David I. Macleod earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. He joined the faculty at CMU in 1970 and has taught as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Toronto.
Research Interests
Professor Macleod's research interests have included the history of childhood and youth in the United States, the history of philanthropy, and the history of voluntary organizations. He is currently studying the impact of consumer prices on politics and policy in the United States in the early twentieth century. He also edits the Michigan Historical Review.
Recent Publications
Mapping in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region (David Macleod, ed.). East Lansing: Michigan State
University Press, 2007.
Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983; reissued in paperback, 2004.
"Socializing American Youth to Be Citizen-Soldiers," in Anticipating Total War: The German and American
Experiences, 1871-1914, ed. Manfred F. Boemeke et al. Cambridge: German Historical Institute and Cambridge
University Press, 1999.
The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890-1920. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998.