History Memes That Are So Good, They Belong In Textbooks (Best Of All Time)


We know you love history, pandas, and memes—so do we! That’s why we regularly scour the internet for the most brilliant history memes to brighten your day and maybe even teach you something new. Over the years, we’ve shared so many that we thought it was time to create a hall of fame. This post is a throwback to celebrate the best of the best! Scroll through, enjoy the laughs, and don’t forget to upvote your favorites to crown the ultimate champions!


#1 Washington Washingdogs


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#2 Historians Be Like:


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#3 We Love Petty


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#4 Where’s The Love?


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#5 Barrel Man Had The Right Ideas


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#6 Impressive


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#7 Major W


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#8 Elvis' Chance Of Getting Polio Has Left The Building; Thank You And Good Night!


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#9 History Meme


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#10 Read A Fricking Book For Once!


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#11 Sacrifice Sacrifice


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#12 Adams Is Critically Underrated


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#13 Fly Pig Fly!


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#14 The One War I Don't Think Sabaton Ever Has Or Ever Will Write A Song About


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#15 But Jesus Spoke English.... It Is Right There In The Bible


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#16 This Happened To My Grandfather When He Was Teaching Second Grade. The Kids Were So Traumatized By What They Saw A Lot Of Parents Had To Come Pick Them Up From School


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#17 Habsburg Moment


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#18 Plot Armour Is Really Thick Here


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#19 History Meme


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#20 This Is Why I Failed Chemistry


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#21 When Your Joke Backfires And You Accidentally Advance Women’s Rights


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#22 Game Changer


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#23 Insane To Think Charles Darwin And Steve Irwin Both Owned The Same Turtoise


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#24 How About Another 4 Years Of Delays?


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#25 No One Attacks Our Buddy And Gets Away With It!!!! It's Go Time Motherf****r!!


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#26 I’ll Drink To That


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#27 The 70s Were A Weird Time


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#28 Nestlé Biting Their Tongue


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#29 Simps


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#30 Innovation Is Scary


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#31 He Had To Ask


In 1714, a Norwegian captain and an English captain had a 14-hour long ship-fight. Afterwards, both ships were severely damaged, and the Norwegian captain was running out of ammo. He sent an envoy to the English ship, asking if he could borrow some of their ammo. They said no.


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#32 It Really Do Be Like That


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#33 I Just Hope The Man She Replaced Ended Up Working As *her* Maid


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#34 Had Me At 360 No Scope


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#35 A Surprise To Be Sure But A Welcome One!


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#36 It All Makes Sense Now


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#37 History Ain’t Pretty


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#38 Anyone Know Her Of?


Alice Roosevelt with her dog Leo. She smoked cigarettes in public, chewed gum, placed bets with bookies, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, and kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach, which she often wore wrapped around one arm and took to parties. Her father President Theodore Roosevelt once said of her “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.” 1902.


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#39 Same Thing For The Court Dwarfs


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#40 Mysterious Copper Object Goes Brr


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#41 That Giant Thermonuclear Reactor In The Sky Makes Life Possible But Hear Me Out About That Jesus Guy


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#42 My Cat Is Gonna Be An Olympic Athlete


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#43 Olga Of Kiev's Bloody Revenge Would Make A Good Movie


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#44 Not Nice


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#45 Joe Bless


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#46 Those Cows Are Beautiful


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#47 Astrologers Be Like


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#48 I See What U Did There


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#49 Great Depression Farmers Were Based


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#50 Aviation History Is Relative…


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#51 Vietnam Was A Wild Time


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#52 Indiana Jones And The Misappropriation Of Cultural Artifacts


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#53 I Still Do This


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#54 Mad Respec


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#55 It Really Do Be Like That


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#56 History Meme


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#57 Thanks For Clarifying


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#58 Window Tax


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#59 I Love A Nice Vase


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#60 No Shame


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#61 Sad But True


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#62 Typical


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#63 Dog History Memes Are Undefeated


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#64 Relatable


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#65 History Meme


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#66 You Guys Know You Lost Right?


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#67 Impressive


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#68 Thank You Very Much


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#69 Scientifically Proven


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#70 The Death Of Stalin


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#71 Ofc It Takes Skilled Labor To Construct Complex Monuments


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#72 Thoughts?


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#73 History Of Religion Can Often Be Frustrating


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#74 Hah Get It


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#75 Dirty Dog


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#76 History Repeats Itself


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#77 So Much Spice!


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#78 They Here Cause You Dragged Them Her


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#79 It Do Be Like That


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#80 Grandma


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