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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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Photo of A. Mitchell Palmer, a congressman from Pennsylvania who later became the U.S. Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson.
Cracking Down on Dissent
WE.177A was an air-launched boosted fission weapon deployed by the UK
The Two Sides of the Nuclear Coin
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver in 2007.
An Immigrant in the White House? But Will It Be Arnold?
UN forces crossing the 38th Parallel in 1950.
Why We Need to Rearm Iraq
A sculpture of Jesus's crucifixion from the eighteenth century.
History Through a Faith-Based Lens
President Eisenhower in Holland in 1951.
Will the United States Start a New Nuclear Arms Race?
First Lady Michelle Obama reading a Dr. Seuss book to children at the White House.
Celebrating the “Seussentennial”
The historic Floyd County Courthouse in Rome, Georgia.
Marcus Dixon or Strom Thurmond: Which Is the Predator?
President Nixon photographed through a window explaining release of edited transcripts, April 29, 1974
Will There Be a Last Nixon Cover-Up?
Artistic rendition of Space Station Freedom with the STS Orbiter Vehicle
No Cheap Ticket to Outer Space
Howard Dean in 2014.
How Dean Followed in Goldwater’s Steps
The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger launching in 1983.
Mars: A Planet Too Far?
George H. W. Bush Speaking in St. Louis, 1988. Behind him is Missouri Governor John Ashcroft.
The Danger of Scaring the Voters
An official portrait of Vice President Dick Cheney taken in 2005
Cheney: Silent Partner to the President
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. exiting a plane in 1964.
King in Time; King in time
Pakistan to US Student Exchange Program, July 2011.
Captive Scholarship Serves Nobody Well
Alfonso García Robles at the Public Hearing on Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament in 1981.
A Model for a Nuclear-Free Middle East
Painted poster of Saddam Hussein riddled with bullet holes in 2003.
Hybrid Justice for Hussein
Most U.S. casualties, like these in a C-17 military transport aircraft, return to Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware. (unknown date)
For Mom, Blueberry Pie — and Iraq?
President Kennedy surrounded by cameramen after signing the Cuba Quarantine Order on October 23, 1962.
How Bush Might Have Profited from Kennedy’s Example
Wedding rings.
Getting Government Out of Marriage, and Vice Versa
Muslim depiction of Muhammad - 17th century Ottoman copy from the "Edinburgh codex".
Iraq, Too, Must Separate Church and State
American soldier conducting patrol with an Iraqi soldier.
What the Vietnam War Tells Us About Iraq
Black Friday shoppers in the morning at Walmart store in Durham, North Carolina.
Is Retailing’s Death Star Vulnerable After All?