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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!

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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.

PostScorePosted
'Thought to be lost forever': After 2,000 years, a library buried by Pompeii’s eruption is finally revealing its secrets24766d ago
Incan children were given hallucinogens before they were sacrificed to the gods16593d ago
Perfume bottle and child’s necklace among treasures found in Pompeii wardrobe6867d ago
Denmark to 3D Scan Viking Runestones4175d ago
Archaeologists Uncover Early Medieval Palace Complex in France2266d ago
The history of Hawaiian civic clubs, a legacy of Prince Kūhiō1522d ago
Bookclub and Sources Wednesday!222d ago
Weekly History Questions Thread.166d ago

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
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 15h ago — for real-time data, use the API or the Playground link above.