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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Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.
Ivy and Slavery
Old man sitting alone in a park.
Social Security Reform for All
FDR and Churchill at the Atlantic Conference in 1941.
A New Atlantic Charter?
President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.
Marking a Tragic Anniversary
John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club.
Conservation — An American, and Republican, Tradition
Miklós Horthy, Hungarian regent, and Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Hitler’s Gamble with Destiny, 1941
Admiral William D. Leahy in 1944.
Hiroshima: Military Voices of Dissent
Administrative building in the Hague in 1939.
First World War of the Twenty-First Century?
A judge's gavel resting in front of legal books.
Windows and the Bench: Microsoft and the Judges
Mount Holyoke College
Historical Truth and Personal Truths
Portrait of Thomas Paine from 1793.
Common Sense: Salute Paine, Not Jefferson, on the Fourth
Photograph of a mock-up of the Little Boy nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. This was the first photograph of the Little Boy bomb casing to ever be released by the U.S. government (it was declassified in 1960).
Sowing Nuclear Seeds of Division
Cazy Freewill Baptist Church in West Virginia, USA.
Faith-Based Groups Should Be Careful What Whey Wish For
Motorcycle and sidecar with an advertisement for the Popolo d'Italia newspaper.
A Media King Becomes Prime Minister (Again)
US president Bill Clinton and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997
The Next Cold War?
Cygnet, Ohio, in Wood County was a booming oil town with 13 saloons and many workers when this photo was taken in 1885.
An Energy Plan for You!
President George W. Bush signs a law in front of senators.
The Dark Side of “Faith-Based Initiatives”
Egyptian Prime Minister Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signing the Camp David Peace Accords on September 17, 1978.
Can Sharon Too Become a Peacemaker?
Election Day in Philadelphia 1815 by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions.
How We Learned to Love the Constitution
Image of a junior high school classroom from Harris & Ewing Photographs.
An Historic Opportunity in Education
President John F. Kennedy delivers an address on the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Historical Analogies: Handle With Care
Nixon shakes hands with Chinese leader Mao Zedong.
Nixon and China, Bush and Cuba?
A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.
Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate
Electoral college results from the 2008 presidential election.
Break Up the States?