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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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Portrait of President James K. Polk from 1846.
The Lessons of Mr. Polk’s War
Col C.B. Winders shooting a gun in the 1910s.
Reconstructing the Second Amendment
President George W. Bush shakes hands with China's President Hu Jintao following his visit and meeting Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, with the Chinese leader at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leaders compound in Beijing.
What Open Skies Can Do For Chinese-American Relations
People arriving at Ellis Island in the early 20th century.
Noncitizens have the obligations of citizens-so why not the right to vote?
John F. Kennedy and Dr. Alvin Weinburg at the Graphite Reactor Oak Ridge National Lab in 1959.
The Dangers – Then and Now – of a Pre-Emptive Strike
San Francisco earthquake 1906
San Francisco 1906 and Katrina 2005: The Increasing Costs of Unpreparedness
President Bush visiting American troops in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day, 1990.
Selling Iraq with the Wrong Pitch
President George W. Bush meets with his cabinet after his re-election.
The Founders Never Imagined a Bush Administration
US propaganda leaflet used in Afghanistan, with bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Fighting a Cold War Against Osama bin Laden
Henry Ford with a Model T in 1921.
What Bill Ford Is Learning from Great-Grandpa
US Capitol, meeting place of Congress.
After Past Scandals, Real Reforms
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, shakes hands with a US Air Force general officer prior to his departure from the United States
The Need to Talk with Iran
President George W. Bush addressing Congress in 2001 with Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Dennis Hastert standing behind him.
Wartime Powers: Lincoln’s Restraint, Bush’s Excess
Engraving of René Descartes.
A Triumph for Religion as Well as Science
A view of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
A Dawn of Peace in Bethlehem?
Photo of a healthcare worker holding an elderly person's hand.
Ducking Out on Retiree Benefits
Portrait of Thomas Paine from 1792.
Paine’s Counsel for a New Time that Tries Men’s Souls
Herbert Hoover
We Could Use a Man like Herbert Hoover Again
The United States Army Drill Team.
Should the Military Take Charge in Emergencies?
A Mobil gas station in 1982.
A Case for Gasoline Price Controls
Pledging his support, President George W. Bush talks via telephone to New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists
Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. during a meeting with Senator Patrick Leahy on August 29, 2005
Give Roberts Some Breathing Room
2006 map of North Korea and South Korea.
Applying the Antarctic Solution to the Korean Nuclear Impasse
American W84 warhead from the 1980s.
Nuclear Arms Control – Now, More than Ever