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Welcome to Viewpoints. Viewpoints is the archive of opinion pieces distributed through the History News Service. These essays have appeared in newspapers around the country.

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This is the logo of the Heaven's Gate cult.
Gullible Americans?
painting - the War of 1812
The Legacy of the War of 1812 Is With Us Still
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea attend a working lunch in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea on October 7, 2018.
Kim Jong-un and the “Madman Theory” of Diplomacy
2012 United States presidential election results map by county.svg
Blocking the Will of the Majority Is a Fundamental Feature of the U.S. Constitutional System
Collier's 1921 Lincoln Abraham - cabinet meeting.jpg
Lincoln’s and Obama’s Teams of Non-Rivals
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681
Hostage Taking in Algeria Is a 200-Year-Old Story
Django Unchained movie poster
The Law of Slavery Lies at the Heart of the Movies “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained”
Logo of General Motors.svg
The Federal Government Should Hold On To General Motors
Poster with a patriotic theme to save food (1917), issued when domestic food restrictions were applied to support the war effort.
The “Invisible Guest” World Food Campaign of the 1920s Should Be a Model for Us Today
Centennial Seal of the Land Grant Colleges
The 1862 Morrill Act Honored the Liberal Arts As Well As Technical Education
Hurricane Sandy Rockaway
Hurricane Sandy Should Inspire New Ways of Building and Living on the Seashore
President Ronald Reagan Says Goodbye to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev After The Last Meeting at Hofdi House Reykjavik Iceland, 10/12/1986
The Presidential Candidates Should Vow to Complete the Nuclear Arms Reduction Efforts Begun by President Reagan in Reykjavik
Rosie Castro with her sons, Joaquín, left, and Julián, April 23, 2006 (ZUMA Wire/San Antonio Express-News/Helen L. Montoya)
No Julian Castro without Mother Rosie Castro
Spraying Pesticides - NARA 1940
Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections
Paul Ryan, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Ryan’s Hope: A Vice Presidency in the Tradition of Dick Cheney and Joe Biden
Signal Soldiers train to protect against Nuclear Biological and Chemical threats.
The Nuclear Theft From the Poor and Hungry
Rendering of the new National World War I Memorial in Washington DC
It’s Time for a National World War I Memorial
Anti-Christian sign in Federal Plaza Chicago 2008
Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible
1864 reproduction of the Emancipation Proclamation from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Obama’s Evolving Position on Same-Sex Marriage Is Similar to Lincoln’s Evolution on Antislavery
With running mate Paul Ryan in Norfolk, Virginia, during the vice presidential selection announcement on August 11, 2012
Vice Presidential Nominees Must Be Plausible As President
Rick Santorum at prayer, 2012
Rick Santorum and Fundamentalist Catholicism
Santorum speaking in Des Moines, Iowa in 2011
Rick Santorum Misunderstands Both Kennedy and Religious Pluralism
Cover of Space Travel, November 1958
Gingrich and Romney: Right and Wrong on Space Travel
Karzai with former US President George W. Bush and wife Laura Bush at Camp David in 2007.
Keep Karzai in the Loop