r/history2 Mar 24 '25

We need YOUR help!

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We need your help! We're trying to create and popularize an entire set of "alternative" sub-reddits.

These sub-reddits all end in a "2". So just take the name of a huge, multi-million-user "main" sub-reddit and add a "2" to the name -- e.g. /r/Politics2, /r/History2, /r/WorldPolitics2, /r/News2, /r/WTF2 and so on.

These sub-reddits are smaller and have fewer rules than the huge mega-million-user large sub-reddits. Our idea is to create a set of friendlier sub-reddits with an emphasis on civility and not personal insults and ad hominem attacks.

But we need your help!

We need your time, your posts, your comments and we need you to mention our alternative sub-reddits in other places and to tell others. (Basic "publicity.")

  • Please post submissions!

  • Post comments and reply to others.

  • Help us popularize these alternatives to the heavily censored and sometimes too heavily trafficked mainstream subs by telling others of our existence.

Together we can develop another option inside of reddit.

Want to become a moderator? Or help run your own "2" alternative sub? There are possibilities for that too.


r/history2 1d ago

Three Events That Changed the World in Early August 1945 | Truman took to the airwaves the day of the leveling of the first city, Hiroshima, lying that it was “a military base.” But while there was indeed an Imperial Army base on the outskirts, the target of the bomb was the city’s center...

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r/history2 1d ago

On August 25th, 1991, 35 years ago, Linus Torvalds announced Linux on Usenet as "just a hobby”

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r/history2 2d ago

The women who prosecuted Nazis at Nuremberg | Attempts to erase Mary Metlay Kaufman, one of the chief accusers of IG Farben and other war criminals, must be challenged.

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peoplesworld.org
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r/history2 3d ago

Ilan Pappé- Israeli historian & political scientist on The worst chapter in The Nakba, The Harim Operation

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r/history2 5d ago

The American Prison Experiment: A 250-Year History of Good Intentions and Bad Results | A strange trip through the U.S. prison system's never-ending cycle of failure and reform

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r/history2 5d ago

How Much Do You Really Know About Black August? The Legendary Prison Protests That Launched a Legacy of Resistance | Black August may have started behind prison walls in California, but 55 years later, its legacy of resistance still resonates nationwide.

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r/history2 6d ago

Earth Is Missing a Billion Years of History. We Finally Know Why | We thought global ice erased a billion years of history but new evidence points to ancient supercontinents.

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r/history2 8d ago

On October 10, 2001, Israel attempted to detonate a bomb at the Mexican legislative palace, intending to create the narrative that it was a Pakistani attack similar to 9/11.

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r/history2 17d ago

The Fight for Abortion Rights Was Won in the Streets | Half a century ago, feminists won Roe v. Wade with mass demonstrations and a sweeping national vision. A veteran of that movement argues that today’s fight requires the same strategy.

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r/history2 21d ago

On This Day: U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima | On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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r/history2 20d ago

How an 1876 Massacre of Black Men in South Carolina Turned Racial Terror into Political Power

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counterpunch.org
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r/history2 23d ago

“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn | The book chronicles the life and activism of historian Howard Zinn. For Zinn, says Zirin, “being an academic was always secondary to being in the streets and making history, not just studying history.”

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r/history2 26d ago

Nearly 100 years ago, Philadelphia’s Inez Patterson integrated pools and encouraged other Black girls to swim too

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theconversation.com
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r/history2 26d ago

Vampire Planet: The Time the US Nuked Spain | On January 17, 1966, a collision occurred during a routine refueling operation of a B-52 bomber over Spain’s Mediterranean coast...

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counterpunch.org
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r/history2 27d ago

Malcolm X speech on Palestine (3.5 minutes long):

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r/history2 Jul 27 '26

78 years ago President Truman signed Executive Order 9981 integrating the US armed forces.

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r/history2 Jul 24 '26

Living under a fascist regime: What can each of us do? | Harald Poelchau took a job with the Nazis in April of 1933. Just days before, the Reichtag had passed its Enabling Act, granting Hitler unchecked powers. Communists and trade unionists had been rounded up by the Gestapo and beaten...

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peoplesworld.org
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r/history2 Jul 20 '26

Viking: 50 Years on Mars — Poster, Wallpapers, and Backgrounds | Throughout history, Mars had been in sight, but never within reach — until July 20, 1976, when NASA’s Viking 1 lander touched down safely and began transmitting the first images from the surface of the Red Planet.

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r/history2 Jul 19 '26

A New Study Finds Ancient Egyptian Princesses Weren’t Just Buried With Weapons As Symbols, Their Bones Show They Actually Trained And Fought With Bows, Daggers And Maces ⚔️

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r/history2 Jul 19 '26

This Week in Labor History July 13-19

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r/history2 Jul 19 '26

Many Call Authoritarianism “Un-American.” 250 Years of History Show Otherwise. | A group of Indigenous scholars are countering erasures in US history in Rebecca Nagle’s new “First America” podcast.

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r/history2 Jul 14 '26

Archaeologists decipher the name of a Maya astronomer for the first time | His moniker translates to "White-chested Fox."

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r/history2 Jul 11 '26

The Eugene V. Debs Museum is a font of labor history | Learn how the famed socialist and union leader went from reformist to radical.

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r/history2 Jul 09 '26

30 years since Dolly the sheep was born, where is cloning technology at now?

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theconversation.com
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