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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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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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 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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«Ladies, you do not realise how often men think about the Roman Empire»: Trend Has Women Realizing the Men in Their Lives Can’t Stop Thinking About Ancient Rome

It’s a conundrum as old as the concept of gender itself: what goes through the minds of the opposite sex all day, every day? If a recent craze is anything to go by, women are one step closer to figuring out this puzzle.  The answer comes in the form of ancient history. For the sake …
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A Heavy Tome of History Memes For Internet Historians

Whether you enjoy having a little giggle at the past, or fact-checking nerdy history memes in your free time, we’ve got a bunch of funny stuff right here for dunces and history buffs alike. And they’re all over the historical map. If you’re into exposing the super-sus and sketchy actions of the CIA, there are memes …
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Classical Studies Memes For All the Former Percy Jackson Kids

Everyone obsessed with classical studies has that obsession because of some gateway drug they latched onto when they were young. You might’ve had a big book of ancient history when you were young, or maybe your family told you the story of Orion’s belt and the Big and Little Dippers. If you are a member …
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Ancient Roman Memes for Ides of March Enjoyers

This week was a fun one back when we were in school. Pi day always meant doing something fun with pie. Either making pie, classmates would bring in pie, or sometimes a benevolent math teacher (There’s a reason I remember you, Ms. Buono) would do the work herself and bring in several pies for us …
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