History News Service

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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Two baseballs.
Why Dick Allen Never Reached the Hall
A dry ice bomb mid-explosion.
It’s Not How to Make a Bomb That’s the Problem, But Why
Atomic bomb damage on Hiroshima gas building.
Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima
US Marine Corps during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
“Operation Mississippi Freedom”: When State-Sponsored Terrorism Was American
"We the People" Inscription located on the facade of the National Constitution Center.
How Europe Might Learn from American Constitution-Making
European Union flag fluttering in the wind.
Europe Already Has a Working Constitution
PPI Drug Testing by Cambodia, PPI Network, CC BY 2.0, Flickr
Pro Sports Can Run, But They Can’t Hide
President George W. Bush sitting at his desk in 2001.
Social Security: False Crisis, Destructive Solutions
The Senate's side of the U.S. Capitol Building.
The Framers vs. Sen. Frist
the U.S. Constitution, COM Library, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Why Getting Rid of the Filibuster Is Still a Good Idea
American nuclear missile from the early Cold War in its original launch silo.
A Basis for Hope in the Middle East
Legislative members are seen exhausted while listening to lengthy testimony during floor action on the articles for impeachment of judge Sam Smith.
The Poisonous Cry for Judicial Impeachment
Pope Francis smiling from inside a car as he leaves the White House in 2015.
Embracing the Pope–Selectively
President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967.
How to Intervene and Get Out
Former President Jimmy Carter
Putting Ex-Presidents Back to Work
An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1780. Pennsylvania State Archives.
The Forgotten First Step Toward Freedom
State of Israel Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, pictured during a defense meeting held at the Pentagon in Washington, District of Columbia (DC).
Is Sharon Following in the Steps of Nixon and de Klerk?
The Education of Little Tree by Forest Carter book cover.
Fake Autobiographies: A Great American Tradition
Howard Dean speaking at a rally in 2003.
How to Rise from the Political Deathbed
An array of non-lethal guns laid out on a table.
Taking a Big Bite Out of the Second Amendment
Allen Weinstein
Will They Be the National (Secret) Archives?
President George W. Bush and his wife Laura listening to a Missouri elementary student read aloud to them.
Can Bush Avoid the Curse of Re-election?
An unidentified U.S. Marine Corps corporal fires his weapon at a wounded, unarmed Iraqi lying on the floor of a gutted mosque in Fallujah, Nov. 13, 2004. by Kevin Sites found on NPR.org
Shooting the Wounded: What Are the Rules Now?
President George W. Bush sitting at his desk across from his dogs in 2005.
He’s Just a Prez Who Can’t Say No