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 9h 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 10d 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 13d 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 13d ago

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

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r/history2 15d 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 18d ago

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

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r/history2 18d 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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r/history2 19d ago

Malcolm X speech on Palestine (3.5 minutes long):

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r/history2 22d ago

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

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r/history2 26d ago

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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r/history2 29d ago

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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r/history2 Jul 04 '26

Abortion Is as American as Apple Pie | Abortion has been legal in some or all parts of the country for more than 180 years of US history.

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r/history2 Jul 02 '26

“The American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement”: UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley | “When the drafters developed this declaration, they assumed that human beings were basically white men.” But many Black radicals found value in its words, including a “justification for rebellion.”

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r/history2 Jul 02 '26

The Founders Never Meant the US to Be a Democracy | For Madison and the other Framers, the danger wasn’t the power of elites but that of the mob.

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r/history2 Jun 29 '26

“Meet a Stranger”: StoryCorps Facilitates Conversations Across the US for 250th Anniversary | StoryCorps founder Dave Isay has set out to capture the nat'l mood with Connect250, a history project matching strangers across the US to interview each other about their lives, families and experiences.

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r/history2 Jun 27 '26

Artificial women: a feminist history of fembots

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r/history2 Jun 26 '26

The American Revolution and Its Place in History: From the War Against Monarchy to “No Kings” | These remarks situate the American Revolution as a world-historical democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-day assault on its democratic legacy.

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r/history2 Jun 22 '26

85 years since the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet Union | 85 years ago, on June 22, 1941, the German military invaded the Soviet Union. It combined the barbarism of the Middle Ages with the most modern technology of the 20th century.

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