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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
Genetic study shows seafarers from Easter Island settled Hawaii3954d ago
Henry Ho‘olulu Pitman- A descendant of Hawaiian royalty who served in the American Civil War | Images of Old Hawaiʻi3662d ago
How rugby rallied and remembered its heroes after horrific Aberfan disaster1474d ago
AMA: I'm Lars Marius Garshol, beer historian 🍻. I just published "The Power of Beer". Ask me anything!1225d ago
Hi I’m Ben Macintyre, author of Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War’s Most Extraordinary Spy and you can Ask Me Anything!613d ago
Weekly History Questions Thread.138d ago
Bookclub and Sources Wednesday!104d ago
The 5,000-Year History of Paperwork — From Clay Tablets to Voice AI13d 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 16h ago — for real-time data, use the API or the Playground link above.