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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
Finland uncovers largest late Iron Age coin hoard, weighing about 4.5 kilos7836d ago
AMA: Soviet Union. I'm a historian of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, specializing in migration, asylum, belonging, and citizenship. I study, among other things, people who chose to seek asylum, move, or return to the Soviet Union voluntarily. Ask me anything!1942d ago
Weekly History Questions Thread.454d ago
How Final Calls From 9/11 Became a Record of the Tragedy17d ago
How Did People Survive Before Toilet Paper?17d ago
485-mile relay runs through Falls Church to Ground Zero in remembrance of September 11, 2001 and to raise money for first responders and wounded veterans!17d ago
14,000 tons of explosives17d ago
Ayoungmananswersthecall17d ago
Penises, Hitler and Canterbury nuns – the extraordinary history of the Bayeux tapestry16d ago
Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds16d 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.

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