 In 2008 Histmag was visited by 675,000 different people who accessed over 2,500,000 different pages on the portal.The portal is also engaged in various activities aiming to popularize history.In 2009 it sponsored the publication of a book..

Modelling themselves on the efforts of the Canadian writer Yann Martel to fight against the growing indifference of politicians towards literature by sending books to Stephen Harper, in 2011, they began the „Polećmy książki premierowi” (Let's Recommend books for the Prime Minister) in which readers could choose books which would be given to Donald Tusk by Michał Świgon, the erstwhile editor, during a book fair in Warsaw in May of that year.