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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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Image of Lou Gehrig from a Sports Exchange All-Stars trade card.
Celebrating a Genuine American Hero
General George S. Patton waving to crowds in Los Angeles, California in 1945.
Pragmatic de-Baathification is Key to Rebuilding Iraq
A U.S. military vehicle crossing the Iraq border in March 2003.
U.S. Credibility at Stake in Iraq
The "Bridge of No Return" that crosses the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.
Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea
Glass negative of Kaiser Wilhelm.
A New Kind of Anti-Americanism
soldiers in Iraq
Can Iraq Learn to Live in Peace?
Undated photo of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany.
Democracy-Building Will Be Tougher This Time
The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
With God on Our Side
Bust of Harlan Fiske Stone, the 12th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Following Bad Precedents for Deciding Military Justice
President Reagan recites the Pledge of Allegiance with students from a Detroit Catholic school in 1984.
Affirming “Under God” Ruling Is a Higher Form of Patriotism
The United Nations headquarters in Geneva.
Will We Turn the U.N. Charter into a “Scrap of Paper”?
Mosul Grand Mosque in 2007
Bush Needs War — FAST
Space Shuttle Columbia launching
Can We Boldly Go There Any More?
Lockheed u 2c aircraft Image from Public domain images website
Brandishing Nukes–A Self-Defeating Policy
A tractor purchased through the Marshall Plan for France.
Grand Fenwick, Afghanistan and Iraq
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in Holland in 1964.
Asking Martin Luther King…
Anti-draft protest outside the Department of Justice in 1967.
The Draft — for Democracy
Depiction of General Scott capturing Mexico City during the Mexican-American War.
Getting Away from the “Quagmire” Cliché
Custis Lee (1832–1913) on horseback in front of the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia on June 3, 1907, reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade.
Trent Lott and the Collapse of Southern Mythology
Immunization poster from the early 1940s that says, " Immunization: Saves Lives," and shows a child receiving a vaccination.
Voluntary Vaccination: Deciding the Risk of Unknowable Danger
The South Carolina State Capitol.
Trent Lott Should Be History
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife before their assassinations in Sarajevo.
The Enduring Lesson of Sarajevo
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's 1912 illustration, The First Thanksgiving, 1621
Now, About that First Thanksgiving Dinner…
President George W. Bush
Policies for the Fearful: Rollback Then, Regime Change Now