R/AskHistorians
Type of site | Subreddit |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder(s) | https://www.reddit.com/u/Artrw |
| URL | www |
| Users | ~600,000 |
r/AskHistorian is a subreddit on Reddit where users may ask questions or start discussions about history, and is "one of the largest history forums on the internet".[1] It was founded in 2012 and has remained active ever since having over 700,000 subscribers[2], unlike other internet communities it aims to "provide serious, academic-level answers to questions about history" and is strictly moderated. It has received endorsments from various academic organizations[3]. The community attracted mainstream attention in 2018 when its strict modertation policy towards holocaust deniers drew comparisons to the comparably lax policies of Facebook.