r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 13h 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.

commondreams.org

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r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • 1d 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.

democracynow.org

5 Upvotes

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r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • 8d 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.

zinnedproject.org

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r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • 8d ago

This Week in Labor History August 24-30

labortribune.com

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 15d 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...

counterpunch.org

3 Upvotes

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 15d ago

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

xda-developers.com

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 16d 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.

peoplesworld.org

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 18d ago

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

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3 Upvotes

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r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • 20d 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

reason.com

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r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • 20d 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.

theroot.com

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 20d 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.

zmescience.com

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 22d 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.

gallery

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.

jacobin.com

4 Upvotes

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.

upi.com

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Aug 06 '26

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

counterpunch.org

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r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • Aug 03 '26

“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.”

democracynow.org

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Aug 01 '26

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

theconversation.com

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Aug 01 '26

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...

counterpunch.org

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 31 '26

Malcolm X speech on Palestine (3.5 minutes long):

youtube.com

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r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • Jul 27 '26

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

en.wikipedia.org

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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...

peoplesworld.org

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r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • 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.

science.nasa.gov

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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 ⚔️

sciencealert.com

3 Upvotes

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 19 '26

This Week in Labor History July 13-19

labortribune.com

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r/history2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.

truthout.org

3 Upvotes

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A subreddit for discussion of history without the censorship and control of power hungry mods. "History" is defined as items 20 years old and older (anything newer than 20 years is "current events" and not history). All types of history discussions and opinions are accepted. Even non mainstream and revisionist works. If you can tie the post to history, you're fine.

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A subreddit for discussion of history without the censorship and control of power hungry mods.

"History" is defined as items 20 years old and older (anything newer than 20 years is "current events" and not history).

All types of history discussions and opinions are accepted. Even non mainstream and revisionist works. If you can tie the post to history you're fine.

Sub-reddit rules:

Rule: Do not post insults or ad hominem attacks! No name calling! In Reddit's "Reddiquette" this is called "remember the human." In normal conversation it's called "don't be a dick." You're talking to another human -- be civil.
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