Subreddit directory
r/
history
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!
Subscribers
18.7M
Active users
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Category
education
Refreshed
1 day ago
Coverage score
2 / 4 evidence checks passed
Can you post here?
Thin data
Directional only
We do not yet have enough data to make a clean recommendation here.
Posting gates
- Min karma
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- Account age (days)
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- Submission type
- any
- NSFW
- No
Brands winning here
When cited Reddit discussions from history show up in our LLM-observation dataset, these brands appear most often.
1. YouTube
344
2. Crash Course
72
3. Kings and Generals
17
4. Hardcore History
14
5. Reddit
12
6. Dorling Kindersley (DK)
10
7. Wikipedia
8
8. Sid Meier's Civilization
8
Based on 1066 observed brand mentions across all indexed citation history. Rankings prioritize the last 30 days. Last updated Apr 20, 2026.
See the broader citation datasetActivity
A simple read on whether the subreddit is accelerating, stable, or contracting in recent observed data.
We do not yet have enough observed activity to describe how this subreddit is trending.
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Managed path
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Use history as one signal, not the whole strategy. The plan needs the surrounding communities, posting constraints, and the commercial context for your category.
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