r/AmericanHistory↗
American History
Dedicated to the history of the Western Hemisphere through the year 2006. We encourage friendly discourse, debates, questions, articles, discoveries, or anything else relevant to the Americas within the given time period.
49k subscribers193 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~1% by known bots)82 authors / mosince 2008
r/AmericanHistory has 49k members (+55% over the last 12 months). It gets about 193 posts a month from 82 people. Top topics: Historical Battles and Wars, American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battles and Maya Archaeology.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Historical Battles and Wars1.6%
- American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battles1.1%
- Maya Archaeology1.0%
- Slavery History0.9%
- Historic Explorations and Colonizations0.9%
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- Substack
- Apple
- Medium
- HISTORY
- JSTOR
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