r/history
18,564,526 subscribers — /r/History is a place for discussions about history. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyone's favorite figure of minor French nobility is! This is a somewhat more serious subreddit compared to many others. Make sure to familiarize yourself with our rules and guidelines before participating. All posts must be manually approved by a moderator Thanks!
Top posts this week
The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.
Posting rules
- Rule 1: Keep it civil!
- Rule 2: No current politics or soapboxing
- Rule 3: No historical negationism, denialism or alternate history.
- Rule 4: Comments should be on-topic and contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way
- Rule 5: Discussions limited to events over 20 years ago
- Rule 6: Post in the right subreddit
- Rule 7: Follow the rules and guidelines of reddit
- Rule 8: Post from the original site.
- Rule 9: Text posts require actual research and must be sourced
- Rule 10: Titles of links should accurately describe the content not be sensationalized or misleading
- Rule 11: No using AI's to write your answers for you
- No Atrocity Olympics
- No Memorabilia, Family History, or Genealogy.
- This is an actively moderated subreddit and calls will be made at the moderator's discretion
- A full set of our rules and guidelines can be found on our wiki
Pull this with the API
1 credit per page — this exact request:
curl "https://api.threadsnoop.com/v1/posts?subreddit=history&limit=25" \
-H "x-api-key: ts_live_YOUR_KEY"See /docs/posts for pagination, filtering with q=, and full response shape, or /docs/subreddits for the rules endpoint used above.
Data above refreshed 13h ago — for real-time data, use the API or the Playground link above.