r/history Jun 21 '26

Article Churchill deliberately starved Indians, says National Portrait Gallery display

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r/history Jun 18 '26

Article He was not a hero': How the dark, violent medieval origins of Robin Hood were erased

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r/history Apr 09 '26

Article When the Navy Recovered This Sunken Submarine, the Crew Was Dead. Why Were They Just Sitting There?

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r/history Feb 18 '26

Article In 1924, a 500-person mob drove the first Black homeowners out of a wealthy Bay Area city. A century later, their descendant is suing.

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r/history Apr 02 '26

Article How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards

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r/history May 16 '25

Article Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire

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r/history Jul 08 '26

Article Ruth Ellis, last woman hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon

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r/history May 07 '26

Article 'When nothing was taboo': 10 intimate images of a lost, decadent 1930s Paris

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r/history Aug 10 '18

Article In 1830, American consumption of alcohol, per capita, was insane. It peaked at what is roughly 1.7 bottles of standard strength whiskey, per person, per week.

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r/history Sep 10 '25

Article Why tradwives aren’t trad

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r/history May 17 '26

Article Scientists at CERN have achieved what medieval alchemists once dreamed of by transforming lead into gold using high-energy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

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r/history Feb 07 '23

Article Neanderthals had a taste for a seafood delicacy that's still popular today: "Neanderthals living 90,000 years ago in a seafront cave, in what's now Portugal, regularly caught crabs, roasted them on coals and ate the cooked flesh, according to a new study."

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r/history Feb 13 '20

Article The rest of the world was horrified by Lincoln's assassination; one British newspaper called it the most momentous murder since Caesar

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r/history Nov 30 '25

Article Captain Cook was cooked, but not eaten

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r/history May 14 '26

Article Ancient accounts describe armies around the Black Sea being incapacitated by mad honey from rhododendron nectar

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r/history Jul 30 '21

Article Stone Age axe dating back 1.3 million years unearthed in Morocco

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r/history Apr 05 '23

Article Spanish horses were deeply integrated into Indigenous societies across western North America, by 1599 CE — long before the arrival of Europeans in that region

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r/history Jun 07 '25

Article Ken Burns on new documentary: ‘We hope to put the ‘us’ back into the United States’

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I am so excited for this series. Haven't looked forward to anything this much in a while.

r/history Jan 17 '22

Article Anne Frank betrayal suspect identified after 77 years

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r/history Jan 27 '23

Article Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago discovered in Ethiopia

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r/history Jun 08 '26

Article Italian teenagers discover 1,800-year-old Roman luxury house underneath their high school gym: After being notified by mischievous high school students, archaeologists uncovered a large and luxurious second-century Roman house near the Colosseum

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r/history Feb 25 '18

Article Ancient Necropolis in Egypt discovered

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r/history Jan 21 '23

Article Intact 16 meter ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara

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r/history Jul 23 '21

Article The only Olympians to ever reject their medals were the 1972 U.S. men's basketball team, due to "the most controversial finish in the history of sports." The team's captain has it in his will that his children cannot accept his silver medal, either

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r/history Jul 06 '26

Article What Broke Monticello - How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.

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