15 History Memes To Better Understand Our Past
Understanding our past is one of humanity’s most important tasks, so naturally only the most qualified people are entrusted with the sacred work of interpreting and recording history. Some of these people post on Reddit /r/historymemes, the online community's finest source of crowdfunded and occasionally accurate history information and jokes.
This subreddit is an interesting place. There is certainly a marked focus in history memes, one centered on wars and the history of Europe, which some posters within the community have criticized. But there is also a kind of care and attention paid to the accessible and quirky side of historical events that you rarely see in more official sources. The posters on r/historymemes are posting out of love and pure fascination, and that wonderful sentiment shines through in their memes.
Punic Peoples' Poetry
Hannibal: widely (and unjustly) misunderstood both in his time and in the present day.
What It Had To Be Like
Either all roads lead to Rome… or all roads lead from Rome. At least there were no roundabouts back then.
Criticizing the Eurocentrism Of r/historymemes
Like many forums in the historical discipline overall, /r/historymemes focuses more on the history of Europe and North America than on other regions in the world, leading some to demand the subreddit tell more stories than simply those.
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