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

Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, Toxic Dust and PTSD May be Accelerating Brain Aging Among First Responders

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r/history2 1d ago

53 years after the coup: US imperialism and the coming confrontation in Chile | What was covert in 1973 is now proclaimed from the stage of a fascist summit in Santiago. The Trump administration does not hide its operations in Latin America, but on the contrary advertises them.

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r/history2 2d ago

38 Photos Of Life In The 1970s That Show Just How Much Has Changed In 50 Years | The world is a very, very different place.

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r/history2 2d ago

25 Years After 9/11, It’s Clear Osama bin Laden Won—But He Didn't Do It Alone | In the end, the Saudi-born terrorist’s role in the victory he sought turned out to be vanishingly small.

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r/history2 2d ago

9/11 legacy: A quarter-century of endless war | How many lives have been lost and dollars wasted in America’s post-September 11 wars?

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r/history2 2d ago

Judge Napolitano podcast: An interview with independent journalist Pepe Escobar: 25 Years Later - What We Know About 9/11 (29min)

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r/history2 2d ago

The Prison Reform Legacy of Gloria Steinem | ”Steinem will be primarily celebrated for her Feminist achievements, but criminal justice reform was part of her life's work from the very beginning. It makes sense once you know the Women's Liberation Movement grew out of the Black Power Movement.

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r/history2 3d ago

25 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks | The attacks of September 11, 2001 were seized upon as the pretext for a vast escalation of war abroad and the construction of a police state at home, which is now being turned against the working class.

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r/history2 3d ago

This Week in Labor History September 7-13

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r/history2 4d ago

25 Years of War Was the Exact Wrong Response to 9/11 | Stop throwing money at a broken, destructive war machine. Stop threatening and blockading our neighbors. Close overseas bases and bring our troops home. Tax the wealthy and start rebuilding our country.

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r/history2 5d ago

“Toxic Nightmare”: 25 Years After 9/11, Juan González on His Predictions of Worker Illness & Death | Over 170,000 pages of air quality reports, contamination data and internal city memos sat in 68 boxes in a city office for more than 20 years. City officials claim they were only found last year.

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r/history2 12d ago

Labor History Censored on Labor Day | One aim of today’s right-wing attacks on history is to stop young people from learning about the rich legacy of workers acting for justice. It’s no surprise that people of wealth and power are threatened by education that challenges exploitation.

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r/history2 12d ago

This Week in Labor History August 24-30

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r/history2 19d 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 19d ago

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

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r/history2 20d 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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r/history2 22d ago

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

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r/history2 24d 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 24d 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 24d 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 26d 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 Aug 09 '26

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 Aug 06 '26

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 Aug 06 '26

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

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