Wisconsin w Magazine of History // Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg WINSTON CHURCHILL Earle Melvin Terry, Father of Educational Radio JOHN S. PENN Marcus Lee Hansen and the Historiography of Immigration ALLAN H. SPEAR The "Greek Revival" in American Historiography O. LAWRENCE BURNETTE, JR. Published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin / Vol. XLIV, No. 4 / Summer, 1961 STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR., Director Officers Wi I.I.I AM B. HESSELTINE, President GEORGE C. SELLERY, Honorary Vice-President JoH.N C. GEILFUSS, First Vice-President GEORGE HAMPEL, JR., Treasurer E. E. HoMSTAD, Second Vice-President LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR., Secretary Board of Curators Ex-Officio GAYLORD NELSON, Governor of the State MRS. DENA A. SMITH, State Treasurer ROBERT C. ZIMMERMAN, Secretary of State CONRAD A. ELVEHJEM, President of the University A-NCLS B. RoTHWELL, Superintendent of Public Instruction MRS. SILAS SPENGLEB, President of the Women's Auxiliary Term Expires 1962 GEORGE BANTA, JR. HERBERT V. KOHLER WILLIAM F. STARK JOHN TORINUS Menasha Kohler Pewaukee Green Bay GEORGE HAMPEL, JR. ROBERT B. L. MURPHY STANLEY STONE CLARK WILKINSON Milwaukee Madison Milwaukee Baraboo SANFORD HERZOG GERTRUDE PUELICHER MiLO K. SVVANTON ANTHONY WISE Minocqua Milwaukee Madison Hayward Term Expires 1963 SCOTT CUTUP MRS. ROBERT FRIEND JOHN C. GEILFUSS WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE Madison Hartland Milwaukee Madison W. NORMAN FITZGERALD EDWARD FROMM MRS. HOWARD T. GREENE JAMES RILEY Milwaukee Hamburg Genesee Depot Eau Claire J. F. FRIEDRICK ROBERT GEHRKE DR. GUNNAR GUNDERSEN CLIFFORD SWANSON Milwaukee Ripon La Crosse Stevens Point Term Expires 1964 THOMAS H. BARLAND JIM DAN HILL MRS. VI.NCENT W. KOCH FRED I. OLSON Eau Claire Superior Janesville Milwaukee M. J. DYRUD E. E. HOMSTAD MRS. RAYMOND J. KOLTES FREDERICK SAMMOND Prairie du Chien Black River Falls Madison Milwaukee FRED H. HARRINGTON GEORGE F. KASTEI^ CHARLES MANSON WILLIAM STOVALL Madison Milwaukee Madison Madison Honorary Honorary Life Members WILLIAM ASHBY MCCLOY, Winnipeg PRESTON E. MCNALL, Madison MRS. LITTA BASCOM, Madison DOROTHY L. PARK, Madison MRS. LOUISE ROOT, Prairie du Chien Fellows Curators VERNON CARSTENSEN (1949) HjALMAR R. HoLAND, Ephraim MERLE CuRTi (1949) SAMUEL PEDRICK, Ripon The Women's Auxiliary OFFICERS MRS. SILAS SPENGLER, Stoughton, President MRS. MILLARD TUFTS, Milwaukee, Vice-President MRS. WILLIAM H. L. SMYTHE, Milwaukee, Secretary MRS. E. J. BIEVER, Kohler, Treasurer MRS. CHESTER E.'VCELKING, Green Bay, Assistant Treasurer MRS. RAYMOND J. KOLTES, Madison, Ex-Officio VOLUME 44, NUMBER 4 / SUMMER, 1961 Wisconsin Magazine of History Editor: WILLIAM CONVERSE HAYGOOD Is Patriotism Healthy? 242 If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg 243 WINSTON CHURCHILL Earle Melvin Terry, Father of Educational Radio 252 JOHN S. PENN Marcus Lee Hansen and the Historiography of Immigration 258 ALLAN H. SPEAR Blueprint for the Future: the Society's Historic Sites 269 JANE NEUHEISEL The "Greek Revival" in American Historiography: A Review Article 275 O. LAWRENCE BURNETTE, JR. Log Sauna and the Finnish Farmstead: Transplanted Architectural Idioms in Northern Wisconsin 284 RICHARD W. E. PERRIN Readers' Choice 287 Accessions 314 Contributors 320 Published Quarterly by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin THE WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY is published not assume responsibility for statements made by contribu­ quarterly by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 tors. Second-class postage paid at Madison, Wisconsin. State Street, Madison 6, Wisconsin. Distributed to members Copyright 1961 by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. as part of their dues (Annual membership, $5.00; Family Paid for in part by the Maria L. and Simeon Mills Editorial membership, $7.00: Contributing, $10; Business and Profes­ Fund and by the George B. Burrows Fund. Wisconsin ncws- sional, $25: Life, $100; Sustaining, $100 or more annually; pajjers may reprint any article appearing in the WISCON­ Patron, $1000 or more annually). Single numbers, $1.25. SIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY providing the story carries Microfilmed copies available through University Microfilms, the following credit line: Reprinted from the State Histori­ 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Communica­ cal Society's Wisconsin Magazine of History for [insert the tions should be addressed to the editor. The Society does season and year which appear on the Magazine}. grew in significance. Fifty years ago it was paramount policy; now it has been reduced to a debatable issue. The patriot should know, and understand, some of the great decisions in our history which have shaped the country of his allegiance. No one questions that we are an institu­ tionalized country today. We live in the mid­ IS PATRIOTISM HEALTHY? dle of organizations. Our families are in­ volved in schools and churches, labor groups, and farm organizations. We can not turn around without bumping into an institution of some sort. Our cities are institutions in them­ selves. Important as these are in our daily lives, we can not understand our relationship to them and their contribution to our country unless we know why and how they grew to size UMMER is the wrong time for tackling and power. S big questions, not to mention delicate No one questions the central importance of ones, but "Is Patriotism Healthy?" can never our state and community in the life of this be a seasonal issue. It is one thing to enjoy country. Too many, however, shrug off the fireworks, know the words of the Star Span­ narrative of the development of these local gled Banner (or even the tune), and fly the elements as irrelevant. Yet the seeds of vital flag on national holidays, but is this enough? and vigorous living were sown generations ago I think two elements are basic. in Wisconsin, as In other states, by men and The first is obvious. Patriotism calls for an women who were not indifferent to their past. unabashed appreciation of the greatness of The story of any local industry is a case in this country, its strengths and weaknesses, its point—how it began, expanded, and pros­ virtues and vices. A patriot respects his coun­ pered, was handed down from generation to try for what it is and can be, not for what it generation, was buffeted by economic and po­ is not and can never be. A patriot recognizes litical currents, and how it survived. This is that the grandeur of the United States is partly just one facet of local history—a foundation geographic and mostly human. stone on which this country was built. The second element is just as basic. A Is patriotism healthy? Some people will healthy patriotism grows out of an under­ quibble over a definition of the word "patriot­ standing of our past. This means more than ism" and the use of a medical measure. Others remembering that July 4 was one of a number will dismiss the whole subject with a yawn of critical days in the evolution of the Decla­ and go back to routine activities. Still others ration of Independence, more than remember­ will argue that this is not a legitimate question ing who wrote the national anthem and under since the answer is so obviously either "yes" what circumstances, more than remembering or "no," and, they will add with a flourish, the symbolism of the stars and stripes. An un­ they can cite chapter and verse to prove it, derstanding of the American past begins with using their own source books. And some peo­ knowledge. There are some "why and how" ple, I hope, will think on these things. areas of our history about which Americans I believe that patriotism based on apprecia­ should know. Why and how were the great de­ tion and knowledge is healthy. We can be cisions in our history made? Why and how proud of achievement and charitable toward did our American institutions grow? Why and failure. We can honor greatness and admit to how has our state and community developed? pettiness. We can cherish the right decisions Let me take these in order. and acknowledge the wrong ones. We can rec­ No one questions the assertion that Ameri­ ognize that this nation was built by men and can leaders have made grave decisions which women who were neither perfect nor saintly; literally turned the course of our progress. realizing this, we will appreciate and under­ There are a multitude of examples, but just stand the legacy they gave us and, prayerfully, one will serve. When the Monroe Doctrine was we can hope to equal their accomplishment. announced in 1823, it made a slight impres­ This is healthy patriotism. sion. Over the years as our relations with Latin America became more active, the Doctrine L. H. 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