15 Ides of March Memes to Beware

Happy Ides of March, everybody! I know that in the grand scheme of historical time, March 15th is not a happy day for everybody, but I extend an olive branch to anyone who wants to celebrate the most famous political assassination of all time. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t have some fun on this …
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45 Ancient Rome Memes For Dudes Still Thinking About The Roman Empire

It’s often been said that men think about the Roman Empire at an unusually high rate. I was shocked when I first heard this meme about guys contemplating the Roman Empire at least once a week, if not more. I probably don’t think about said period in history more than a couple of times a …
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Classical Art Memes for Noble Knights From the Middle Ages

There is something about classical art memes that gets me in my funnies. Is it because old and modern humor collide within the meme (and for some reason that’s ironic) or because I’m a huge fine art fan? I can’t put my finger on it. See, I was an art student back in the day… …
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41 Ancient Rome Memes For Dudes Thinking About The Roman Empire

I am not a Roman History expert by any means, but I was fascinated with one iconic event in Ancient Roman history when I was a kid. I’m talking, of course, about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. This interest may or may not have been spurred by a Magic Treehouse Book where …
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25+ Ancient Greek Memes That Make a Herculean Effort at Humor

Forget whether or not you were a 90s kid. The real dealbreaker growing up was which branch of ancient history you were most interested in. Yeah, yeah, the Roman Empire may have become contemporary slang for something that people just can’t stop thinking about, but everyone who was a cool kid was into Ancient Greece …
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45 Ancient Rome Memes For Dudes Still Thinking About The Roman Empire

Unlike so many boys, I do not think about the Roman Empire multiple times a week. However, I do think about Paul Giamatti’s character in the Oscar-nominated film The Holdovers at least once a week, if not more, and I don’t even want to know how many times per day Paul Hunham thinks about that …
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25+ Philosophy Memes to Look at While You Consider the Trolley Problem

Ah, the old chestnut of the trolley problem. The age-old quandary that rattles every budding philosopher’s brain. Is it better to flip the switch and save five people? Or do nothing and save just one? There are endless riffs and variations on this question and even more ways to answer it. It’s a great discussion …
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30+ History Memes That Educate as They Entertain

Call me a nerd, but history was always one of my favorite classes throughout school. Especially when I got to US History junior year of high school because I had an excellent teacher who really made me care about the subject. That’s all it takes to get someone interested in something: a good teacher. Consider …
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25 History Memes for Online History Buffs

You know what they say about history. That if we don’t learn it, we are doomed to repeat it. Is the same true for history memes? If so, study up, young historian, for you have many memes to sift through. These won’t appear on your AP test though, as far as we know. Though we’re working …
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A Library of Funny History Memes That Haven’t Been Fact Checked

What will they say about memes in the history books of the deep future? Will anthropologists regard memes as fascinating hieroglyphs used as a complex form of communication? Or will memes be brushed aside, cast away, and forgotten by historians? Even today, it’s difficult to pinpoint when the first internet meme occurred. Many believe it’s …
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