Professor Historian YouTube Stats

@thehistorianprofessor · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Professor Historian channel overview

Professor Historian (@thehistorianprofessor) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2007. It has 51K subscribers and 16M total views across 44 videos, an average of 358K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 185K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 16K views. Over the last 12 months, Professor Historian published 30 videos, and 6 of them (20%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Professor Historian make?

Returbe estimates Professor Historian's YouTube ad revenue at $92 – $306 per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

Professor Historian publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (33% of uploads), usually around 00:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 26, 2026.

Professor Historian's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Professor Historian's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• 1 Hour of the CRAZIEST Stories From Ancient Times2.5M views · Aug 9, 2026154.6× typical views
• 2 Hours of Ancient History That Sounds COMPLETELY Fake1.1M views · Oct 8, 202669.4× typical views
• 1 Hour of Ancient History’s CRAZIEST Drug Stories600K views · Oct 8, 202637.1× typical views
• Ancient Drugs With Terrifying Side Effects436K views · Oct 8, 202626.9× typical views
• Ancient Civilizations That Were Running on Drugs434K views · Sep 8, 202626.8× typical views
• Mistakes That Collapsed Entire Empires57K views · Jul 10, 20263.5× typical views
• Ancient Weapons That Were Centuries Ahead of Their Time41K views · Jul 10, 20262.5× typical views
• 1 Hour of Disturbing Stories From ANCIENT Times39K views · Aug 9, 20262.4× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Professor Historian's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Animals That Changed the Course of History10K views · Oct 26, 20260.6× typical views
• Historical Conspiracies That Turned Out to Be Real18K views · Oct 17, 20261.1× typical views
• History’s Deadliest Pirates14K views · Oct 10, 20260.8× typical views
• 1 Hour of Ancient History’s CRAZIEST Drug Stories600K views · Oct 8, 202637.1× typical views
• The Craziest Scams in Ancient Civilizations30K views · Oct 8, 20261.8× typical views
• Ancient Treasures Scientists Still CANT Find16K views · Oct 8, 20261× typical views
• 2 Hours of Ancient History That Sounds COMPLETELY Fake1.1M views · Oct 8, 202669.4× typical views
• People Who Survived Their Own Executions7.5K views · Oct 8, 20260.5× typical views
• Ancient Drugs With Terrifying Side Effects436K views · Oct 8, 202626.9× typical views
• Ancient Sports That Would Be ILLEGAL Today14K views · Oct 8, 20260.9× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.9K videos from 614 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Professor Historian or YouTube.