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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Immigrant Rights Protest by Betty Tsang, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
The Federal War on Immigrants Is a War on All Workers
The Obama family attending a 2014 Easter service at 19th Street Baptist Church.
Democrats Revive Our Civic-Religious Traditions
Mourning banners hung at the south gate of Beijing university in the aftermath of the 1989 June 4th incident in Beijing
Survivor: the Chinese Communist Party
The military cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II in Nettuno, Italy.
A Day for Remembering — and Accepting Responsibility
Poster from a 2020 pro-choice rally that says, "If my uterus had a gun, would I have more rights?"
Theater of Cruelty
A bison in Yellowstone National Park.
Why the Buffalo Still Roam
Botanic Blooming sagebrush on the great plains
Why the Great Plains Are Dying
Jackie Robinson
Living Up to Jackie Robinson
A protest against the Iraq War held in 2007 in Washington D.C.
“Passive Citizenship is Not Enough”
The Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem.
A Peace Plan That May Be Worse Than War
American soldiers salute while in formation in 1977.
Time to Ask and Tell!
Closeup of a ram.
It’s Gay Rights, Not Gay Genes, That Matter
President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Coming: Something New in Presidents
Senator Barack Obama
Memorandum to Sen. Obama: How to Run
U.S. Marines holding Sandino's Flag - Nicaragua 1932.
The Costs of Intervention
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in 1964.
Martin Luther King’s True Legacy: Revolutionary Ideals
Official portrait of President Gerald R. Ford (February 25, 1976).
Will Vindication Elude Ford?
President bush delivers remarks in 2008
President Bush at His — and Our — Crossroads
Women of the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared demonstrate in front of La Moneda Palace during the Pinochet military regime.
In Historical Truths, the Road to an Open Society
A 1963 photo of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem.
In Bethlehem, Persisting Hope
Kosovo is located to the south of Serbia.
The Perils of Breaking Away
President George W. Bush with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley in 2006.
Is Iraq Vietnam?
Flag of the Republic of Venezuela (1930-2006)
An End to Interventionism in Venezuela
A KFC in Hanoi, Vietnam
Kentucky Fried Globalization