Histicle’s Publishing Principles
At Histicle, we’re a family-run team passionate about making history accessible and engaging for students and lifelong learners. Our publishing principles guide everything we create, ensuring that each listicle reflects our commitment to historical accuracy, educational value, and genuinely useful content.
With years of experience in education and historical research, we craft all our content in-house to share accurate, engaging historical information you can trust for learning and exploration.
Our Mission
Our mission is simple: to provide well-researched, engaging historical content that helps students and history enthusiasts understand the past and make connections to the present. Whether you’re working on a school project, preparing for exams, or simply curious about history, we’re here to make historical learning accessible, interesting, and memorable.
Editorial Standards
Every piece of content we publish follows strict editorial standards designed to ensure historical accuracy, educational value, and integrity:
Research-Based Content
We base all historical information on thorough research using credible scholarly sources, primary documents, and established historical authorities. We don’t publish content based on popular myths or unverified claims.
Educational Focus
Every article aims to genuinely educate and inform our readers. We prioritize learning value over entertainment, though we strive to make history engaging and memorable through our listicle format.
Historical Accuracy
We verify historical facts through multiple sources and stay current with scholarly consensus. When historical interpretations differ, we acknowledge different perspectives and explain the reasons for scholarly debates.
Honest Resource Recommendations
Our book and travel resource recommendations reflect genuine educational value. We highlight both strengths and limitations, regardless of affiliate relationships or potential earnings.
Clear Communication
We write in clear language appropriate for our student audience while maintaining historical accuracy. Our goal is to make historical knowledge accessible to everyone from grade 7 students to adult learners.
Regular Updates
We regularly review and update our content to reflect current historical scholarship and ensure accuracy. Historical understanding evolves, and our content reflects the best current knowledge.
Content Creation Process
Our content creation follows a structured process to ensure quality and accuracy:
- Topic Research: We identify topics based on educational value, curriculum relevance, and student interest
- Source Verification: We consult multiple credible historical sources including academic works, primary documents, and scholarly databases
- Expert Review: We draw on our team’s educational experience and consult additional experts when covering complex topics
- Fact Checking: All historical claims and dates are verified through multiple authoritative sources
- Educational Review: Every piece of content is reviewed specifically for educational appropriateness and learning value
- Editorial Review: All content undergoes editorial review for clarity, accuracy, and engagement
- Student Testing: We often test our content with students and educators to ensure it meets educational needs
Global Perspective and Inclusivity
While we cover worldwide historical topics, we’re committed to providing inclusive and diverse historical perspectives. We strive to:
- Include diverse voices and perspectives in historical narratives
- Acknowledge different cultural interpretations of historical events
- Cover history from multiple regions and civilizations
- Recognize when our content may reflect particular cultural or regional perspectives
- Continually expand our coverage to include underrepresented historical topics and figures
Affiliate Relationships and Editorial Independence
We participate in the Amazon Associates affiliate program to support our content creation, but this relationship never influences our editorial decisions. We choose what to write about based on educational value and student interest, not commission potential.
Our editorial team operates independently from our business relationships. Resource recommendations are based on educational merit, research value, and genuine usefulness to learners, not on potential earnings.
Our Commitment to Accuracy
As a family operation dedicated to education, we take historical accuracy seriously, but we’re human too. If we ever make a mistake, we’ll own it and correct it promptly.
When we make corrections, we:
- Update the content with accurate information
- Add a note explaining what was corrected and when
- Notify educators and students who may have been affected by the error
- Review our processes to prevent similar mistakes
If you spot an error or have concerns about any historical information in our content, please reach out to us at john@histicle.com. We take accuracy seriously and appreciate your help in maintaining high educational standards.
Student and Educator Feedback
We value feedback from our student and educator audience and actively seek input to improve our content. Questions from students often inspire new articles, and experiences from educators help us refine our educational approach.
While we can’t respond to every message personally, we read everything and use feedback to guide our content strategy and improvements.
Academic Integrity and Citation
We encourage proper academic use of our content. Students and educators are welcome to reference our articles with proper attribution. However, we emphasize the importance of:
- Using multiple sources for comprehensive understanding
- Following institutional academic integrity policies
- Consulting primary sources and scholarly works for detailed research
- Properly citing all sources, including our content, in academic work
Content Ownership and Republishing
All content on Histicle is original and created by our team. We don’t republish content from other sources without proper attribution and permission.
Educators are welcome to reference our content in their teaching with proper attribution and links back to the original source. However, wholesale copying or republishing of our content without permission is not permitted.
Last Updated: July 30, 2025
These publishing principles reflect our current standards and educational approach. We may update them as we grow and evolve, always with the goal of better serving students and history enthusiasts.
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