Subreddits

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 2h ago — for real-time data, use the API or the Playground link above.