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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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Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
Peace through Olympic Sport?
Senator Joe Lieberman
Accepting Joseph Lieberman: The Electorate Grows Up
President Lyndon B. Johnson giving a speech about the Voting Rights Act with a statute of President Abraham Lincoln in the background.
The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History
Photo of "Fighting Bob" La Follette
Lessons for the Nader Camp: ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette in 1924
Dick Cheney in 2003.
The Vice President: Heir Apparent in American Politics
The Titanic sailing from Southampton in 1912.
Is History Really Bunk?
Woman reading inside a newsstand in the 1950s.
Journalists and the Bomb
Waiting for a Chinook, by C.M. Russell. Overgrazing and harsh winters were factors that brought an end to the age of the Open Range.
Dot-Coms and the Great Cattle Die-Off
Tulsa aftermath. Jun 1, 1921.
In Oklahoma, Another Debate About Reparations
Vicente Fox Quesada
Will Fox be a Mexican Jefferson?
An engraving of Earl Cornwallis's surrender to George Washington during the American Revolution.
Hollywood’s American Revolution
John D. Rockefeller in 1914.
Bill Gates — Another Rockefeller or Another Ford?
President Bill Clinton addressing a high school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.
The Politics of Compassion
Russian peasants in the early 20th century.
Vladimir Putin: Not the Jefferson of Russia
Portrait of Jane Addams
Million Moms March in Noble Company
Exiles carry a poster against the communist government of Cuba, in a demonstration in Miami
Cuba in Focus–Again
Dynamiters' train in Indianapolis.
Of Bill Gates, Casey Jones, and the Search for Heroes
Campaign poster attacking Cleveland's morals.
Morality and Presidential Elections
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.
Spring Marches on Washington
A U.S. Coast Guard boat approaches a sailboat with over 90 Haitian refugees in 1988. The refugees were later returned to Haiti.
Who is responsible for the Elian Gonzalez case?
George Washington Bridge Flag Retirement Ceremony
Who’s Desecrating the Flag, Anyhow?
University of Notre Dame's administration building.
The Catholic Voter in the Twentieth Century
KKK members displaying the Nazi salute and Holocaust denial signs.
Facing Anti-Semitism and American History
The Epsom Clock Tower in the UK.
How Clocks Helped Conquer the World