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Welcome to History!
A community dedicated to sharing and discussing fascinating historical facts from all periods and regions.
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Post about history. Ask a question about the past, share a link to an article about something historical, or talk about something related to history that interests you. Discussion is encouraged.
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No memes. No ads. No promos. No politics. No spam.
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No porn.
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We like facts and reliable sources here. While sources like Quora/Reddit/Wikipedia can be great tools for quick searches, we do not allow such user-generated content as primary source. What’s wrong with Wikipedia?
NOTE: Personal attacks and insults will not be tolerated. Stick to talking about the historical topic at hand in your comments. Insults and personal attacks will get you an immediate ban.
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- The story of how a 1709 Stradivarius violin, looted during the Nazi era, resurfaced in Japanenglish.elpais.com ↗Submitted 8 months ago by TheDwZ@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered his famous “What to the American slave is your 4th of July?” speech in Rochester, NY.lemmy.ml ↗Submitted 10 months ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml | 0 comments
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- Civil rights leader says artifacts were removed from Smithsonian’s Museum of African American Historyyoutu.be ↗Submitted 1 year ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- 'I screamed out of excitement': 2,700-year-old cuneiform text found near Temple Mount — and it reveals the Kingdom of Judah had a late payment to the Assyrianswww.livescience.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago by x0x7@lemmy.world | 1 comment
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- Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image [GRAPHIC PHOTO]www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 7 months ago by FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Roman marching camps discovered in Saxony-Anhalt reveal early military advances deep into Germaniaarchaeologymag.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago by muelltonne@feddit.org | 0 comments
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- The spies of the pharaohs and the double agents of the Caesars: How intelligence services operated in antiquityenglish.elpais.com ↗Submitted 8 months ago by blackseal@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Euro Cobra - The VFW Fokker/Westland P277 was a concept attack helicopter. In the same way that the AH-1 Cobra used a lot of the Huey "off-the-shelf" gear, this one used engines, rotor, and other complemmy.world ↗Submitted 4 months ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world | 1 comment
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- ‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcastwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 8 months ago by fraiserouge@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- What were the Greeks and Romans like? Their letters suggest they weren’t so different from ustheconversation.com ↗Submitted 8 months ago by SoyTDI@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- ‘I want to tell the world’: Bergen-Belsen survivor recounts horrors of Holocaustwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago by versefedi@feddit.org | 0 comments
- Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern Englandwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 9 months ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com | 5 comments
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