Medium “History” tag statistics
How busy the History tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 7.9 days
Busier than 60% of 73 tracked tags
10% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 101 stories a day, History is busier than 60% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (52,964 followers per daily story) is higher than 62% of tags — more readers per story than average.
58% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 10% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 42% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.4 minutes to read.
Publications that publish History stories
| Publication | Followers | History stories (last 7.9d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 22 |
| The Riff | 49K | 13 |
| Prism & Pen | 34K | 7 |
| The Polis | 36K | 7 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 7 |
| Spark Magazine | 2.7K | 6 |
| Dark Stories: On This Day in True Crime History | 33 | 6 |
| Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs | 44K | 5 |
| Dodger Insider | 4.8K | 5 |
| Teatime History | 23K | 4 |
Top History stories right now
- Declassified: The Truth They Never Wanted Us to Know
- Men Are Calling the Woman Behind the Moon Landing a Fraud
- The Body of Pharaoh: How a 3000 Year Old Corpse Became a Sign for the World
- Gold Rush Memories
- The Republic of Me, And the Forgotten People
- Why Older Technologies Still Have a Place in Modern Life
- The Day I Stepped Into History
- Why This Nude Painting Touched a Nerve With the Critics
- We Once Eliminated a Common Dementia
- The Lake That Exploded Without Warning
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the History tag on Medium?
- About 101 per day (708 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 7.9-day window before our last scan. The tag has 205,183 stories in total.
- Is the History tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 60% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 52,964 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in History?
- 10% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 58% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.