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Cool Stories About History has 7,451 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #12 on Substack's History Rising board. 33 publications recommend them, 12 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 50.

Followers read · Boards read

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers
7,451
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
2.9K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
none shown
Recommended by
33
+12 in 30 days
Recommends
50
Bestsellers rank
none
Rising #12, History

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

7.3k7.4k7.5k7.6k7.7k Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 7,451
7.3k7.4k7.5k7.6k7.7k Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 7,451
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Cool Stories About History on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 20267,4512.9K+

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
History Rising#12#122 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
History Rising1912▲7

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

33 publications recommend Cool Stories About History; 11 started in the last 30 days. Cool Stories About History recommends 50, and 13 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

1Aug 2612Sep20OctNov
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2026-081
2026-0912
2026-1020

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  • Forgotten Historystarted Sep 14, 2026
  • They Did What?! History's Weird and Wonderfulstarted Sep 14, 2026
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  • History They Didn't Teach Youstarted Sep 14, 2026
  • Purple Historystarted Sep 14, 2026 · mutual
  • This Is History’s Substackstarted Sep 14, 2026
  • Studying Historystarted Sep 14, 2026 · mutual
  • Life in the Past Lanestarted Sep 14, 2026
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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

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