25 History Memes Which Bring The Past To Life

It was probably easier being present in the past: there were no phones in sight and there was no scroll to distract people from living the moment. But it can be harder to make the past feel present, to feel like history really happened: that people really cared, fought, farmed and worked the way books tell us they did. Thankfully, there are more resources than just books for learning about the past: in the modern day, history memes offer a new medium for making the past come alive.

Warriors in medieval times and legionnaires in the Roman Empire can't have known that centuries later, their exploits would be learned about on illuminated bits of glass and metal held in the palm, and electronic transmissions through wires and across air would spread the word of their deeds and ideas in the form of memes that made people chuckle.