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 2d 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 3d ago

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 3d ago

This Week in Labor History July 13-19

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r/history2 3d ago

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 8d ago

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 10d ago

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 13d ago

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

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r/history2 18d ago

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 19d ago

“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 20d ago

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 22d ago

“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 25d ago

Artificial women: a feminist history of fembots

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r/history2 26d ago

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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r/history2 Jun 21 '26

Juneteenth: The Day America Solved Racism by Taking A Day Off From Work | Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops set foot in Galveston, Texas, and informed enslaved Black people that they were free…more than 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Yeah. Let that sink in.

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r/history2 Jun 19 '26

'Grandmother of Juneteenth' says efforts are being made to erase Black history

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r/history2 Jun 18 '26

How the Progressive era changed child labour in the U.S. | A popular attitude at the time was that children had always worked and, therefore, children working in modern industries was necessary and nothing unusual.

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r/history2 Jun 15 '26

How Jules Verne predicted the Artemis 2 mission to the moon almost 160 years ago | Written in the 1860s, Verne’s novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the Moon" were fiction in their time, but now seems familiar: 3 astronauts in a conical capsule on a trajectory around the moon.

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r/history2 Jun 10 '26

A tribute to Gordon S. Wood (1933-2026), historian of the American Revolution | In a career spanning six decades and numerous books, articles and lectures, Wood established himself as the foremost historian of the American Revolution and the Early Republic.

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r/history2 Jun 09 '26

Nash was first Black Louisiana lawmaker to take his seat in Congress | In 1874 “Nash joined a then-record eight Black Members in the 44th Congress,” the U.S. House of Representatives Archives states. “Upon his swearing-in, Nash was assigned to the Committee on Education and Labor.”

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r/history2 Jun 09 '26

This Week in Labor History June 8-14

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r/history2 Jun 08 '26

In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe swung around the far side of the Moon and took 29 grainy photographs of a hemisphere humans had never seen, then developed the film onboard and scanned the negatives with a flying-spot beam to radio them back across nearly 480,000 kilometres of vacuum

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r/history2 Jun 06 '26

Israel's Uprovoked and Unanswered Attack on the USS Liberty

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r/history2 Jun 03 '26

This Week in Labor History June 1-7

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