A plurality say history is brown. Click a color to add your vote.
History is brown because…
“Ancient, dusty things are usually brown.”
“Those ancient, faded photographs always wind up brown.”
“Brown reminds me of ancient, dusty artifacts.”
“Because it’s dull and boring.”
“Makes me think of browned pages and leather-bound books. It's an old color.”
“Dirt and book covers.”
“When you imagine old things they are often in Sepia. And brown is a very natural color and things used to be more natural and brown.”
“It’s old and dusty.”
“History is old and musty like a leather-bound book.”
“The H and the Y make it brown.”
“Brown like the dirt all old civilizations sank into and of which we will also eventually become part of as well.”
“Brown is the colour of old earth and pages of books browned with age. Many things to do with History are also brown-toned, such as medieval armour and weapons, or rusted pocket-watches.”
“The color brown is associated with oldness.”
“Imagine opening a dusty history book. What color is the cover? Brown.”
“It’s old.”
“Brown is like, dirt and bronze and leather. Leather-bound tomes as well.”
History is yellow because…
“It’s a very ugly shade of yellow. I don’t like studying history.”
“Old pages turn yellow.”
“Old letters and maps are often stained yellow.”
“For the four colors generally used for school subjects, social studies was usually yellow, since red, blue, and green were already spoken for. ”
“Its the color of sand which is what the Sahara Desert is made of, and a lot of history happened around that part of Africa. ”
“History reminds me of Egypt, and sand and the pyramids are both yellow.”
“Dirt and tea-stained yellow pages of historical documents.”
History is orange because…
“Dark orange reminds me of oldness.”
“Social studies is orange.”
“They say it’s brown because it’s old, but it happened, and it was alive at some point. It was colorful and lively. Brown is just orange from a different perspective.”
History is red because…
“Bloody battles. Brown actually makes sense, but it’ll always be red for me.”
“A lot of bloodshed.”
“My history book in 5th grade was red.”
History is black because…
“It’s full of wars, diseases, and other unpleasant things.”
“Dark like the past.”
History is blue because…
“Globes are blue.”
History is green because…
“H and Y make it green.”
History is purple because…
“Purple is regal and fancy. Royal history? Also, a lot of old Victorian dolls had purple clothes.
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“All history textbooks were purple.”
History is grey because…
“Because of old grey cartoons and TV shows looooong ago.”