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Welcome to History in Color! We welcome historically meaningful, accurate, and well-researched colorizations. Submissions must capture a noteworthy event, daily life within a distinct era, or candid cultural conditions. Low-resolution photos rarely offer enough detail for quality colorization and may not be approved. Please see the new rules section for further details.

636k subscribers33 posts / mo in Sep 202610 authors / mosince 2012

r/ColorizedHistory has 636k members (+1.0% over the last 12 months). It gets about 33 posts a month from 10 people. Top topics: Civil War Infantry, Abraham Lincoln Assassination and Civil War Soldiers.

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Size and growth

How r/ColorizedHistory has grown

r/ColorizedHistory

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+1.0%in 12 months · +0.5% in 3 months
Oct 2026635k
Growing635k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/ColorizedHistory

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+1550%vs Sep 2025 · +3550% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202633
BusierPeaked at 33 in Sep 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/ColorizedHistory

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Civil War Infantry2.8%
  2. Abraham Lincoln Assassination1.5%
  3. Civil War Soldiers1.4%
  4. Dorothea Lange's America1.3%
  5. Child Labor and History1.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. The Library of Congress

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Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research