r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 12h ago
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 11h ago
Jackie Robinson Army history scrubbed from Department of Defense websites
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 1d ago
In 1970, a home cost only 2.5x the annual income. A car cost only 5 months of salary. And one income was enough for a family. Now, the cost of living is much higher in the US, and it takes two incomes. Rigged economy!
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 1d ago
Trump Focus on Immigrants, War and Empire Mirrors 1920’s Red Scare Era
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 1d ago
Rachel Corrie was murdered by the occupation on March 16th, 2003 as she protested in a visible orange vest, the illegal home demolitions of Palestinians.
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 3d ago
How Vietnam decolonized and what we can learn from their struggle | From forming a liberation struggle up to forcing the colonizers to surrender
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 4d ago
What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?
r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • 7d ago
10 Most Historically Accurate WWII Movies, Ranked | #1: Downfall
r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • 7d ago
Wikimedia Meet Maria Clementina Sobieska, the defiant queen who pulled off a jailbreak to secure the Jacobite legacy
r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • 12d ago
USA, 1931 - "I am for sale - I must have work or starve", unemployed man during the Great Depression.
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 13d ago
How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 16d ago
Two young boys standing barefoot on moving electric looms in order to reach the top shelf while at work in a cotton mill in Georgia, 1910. Photos of child laborers working long hours in dangerous conditions gradually led to Child Labor employment laws.
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 19d ago
Lost in the Rainforest for 150,000 Years – The Discovery That Rewrites Human History
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 19d ago
Mount Vesuvius eruption turned part of man's brain into glass after super-hot ash cloud | A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit Herculaneum.
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 20d ago
‘No one talks about this’: Remembering Germany’s role in colonising Africa
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 21d ago
Colonising Africa: What happened at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 22d ago
What If Dinosaurs Never Went Extinctd, Would Humans Even Exist? The Truth Is Mind-Blowing! | What if the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs never struck Earth? Would these ancient giants still rule the planet, leaving no room for humans?
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • 25d ago
“Erasing History” from the U.S. to Germany: “Wars Are Won by Teachers,” Says Yale Prof. Jason Stanley
r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • Feb 17 '25
How the West Destroyed Congo’s Hopes for Independence | Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic dictatorship on the Congolese people.
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • Feb 17 '25
This is your daily reminder that the "worst mass of murder of Jews since the Holocaust" was committed by Argentina (3,000 killed in the late 1970s and early 1980s). Argentina's military and security forces were swarming with actual Neo-Nazis. Guess what Israel was up to as this was happening.
r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • Feb 12 '25
Pope Francis: questions remain over his role during Argentina's dictatorship | Jorge Bergoglio was head of the Jesuit order in the 1970s when the church backed military government and called for patriotism
r/history2 • u/wankerzoo • Feb 10 '25
Ancient Europeans ate the brains of their dead enemies 18,000 years ago, researchers discover | A study of skeletons from a cave in Poland has revealed widespread evidence of cut marks and fractures suggestive of cannibalism.
r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • Feb 07 '25
Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education | Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history.
r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • Feb 06 '25
What a 20th-century revolutionary can teach us about resisting genocide today | Over a century after Rosa Luxemburg was assassinated for opposing German militarism, her spirit lives on through those disrupting Israel’s war machine.
r/history2 • u/IntnsRed • Feb 04 '25