History (disambiguation)

History is the study of the past.

History may also refer to:

General

 * History of the Earth
 * Human history
 * Natural history
 * Philosophy of history

Literature

 * History (Herodotus), properly Histories
 * History (Malmesbury) (Gesta Regum Anglorum) of William of Malmesbury
 * History (novel), a novel by Elsa Morante
 * "History" (short story), a 1941 science fiction by Isaac Asimov
 * History, a 1973 book of poems by Robert Lowell
 * History of Armenia of Moses of Chorene
 * Natural History (Pliny) (Naturalis Historiae) of Pliny the Elder

Groups

 * History (band), or HISTORY, South Korean pop boy band

Albums

 * History (EP), a 2004 EP by controller.controller
 * History (Dune album) (2000)
 * History (Jon English album) (2016)
 * History (Molly Nilsson album), 2011
 * History (Loudon Wainwright III album) (1992)
 * History (Matthew West album) (2005)
 * History (Yōko Oginome album) (1995)
 * HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, a 1995 album by Michael Jackson
 * History:, 2011 album by Grime rapper JME
 * History: America's Greatest Hits, a 1975 compilation album by America
 * History: Function Music, a 2012 album by E-40 and Too Short
 * History: Mob Music, a 2012 album by E-40 and Too Short
 * History: The Singles 85–91, a 1992 album by New Model Army

Songs

 * "History" (Exo song)
 * "History" (Funeral for a Friend song)
 * "History" (Joel Corry and Becky Hill song)
 * "History" (One Direction song)
 * "History" (Story Untold song)
 * "History" (The Verve song)
 * "HIStory" (song), by Michael Jackson
 * "History", a song by Blue System from Backstreet Dreams, 1993
 * "History", a song by Cast from All Change, 1995
 * "History", a song by Chris Tomlin from Always, 2022
 * "History", a song by Girls Aloud from the single "Wake Me Up", 2005
 * "History", a song by Groove Armada from Black Light, 2010
 * "History", a song by Jay-Z from More than a Game, 2009
 * "History", a song by Julia Michaels from Not in Chronological Order, 2021
 * "History", a song by Madonna from the single "Jump", 2006
 * "History", a song by Megan McKenna from Story of Me, 2018
 * "History", a song by Olivia Holt from Olivia, 2016
 * "History", a song by Mai Tai, 1985
 * "History", a song by Tenacious D from The Pick of Destiny, 2006
 * "History", a song by Vassy, 2010
 * "History", a song by X Ambassadors from Orion

Periodicals

 * History (journal)
 * History: Magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society
 * BBC History, magazine by the British Broadcasting Association

Television

 * History (American TV network) and its regional variants
 * History (Australian TV channel), an Australian version of the channel
 * History (Canadian TV network), a Canadian English language TV channel
 * History en Español, a spin-off channel of The History Channel
 * History (European TV channel)
 * Viasat History, pan-Nordic television channel
 * History TV18, the Indian version of History channel operated by Network18


 * HIStory (web series), a Taiwanese streaming drama anthology series

Other arts, entertainment, and media

 * History (theatrical genre)

Computing

 * Command history, a feature, found notably in many operating system shells, which allows users to recall, edit and rerun commands that were previously entered. The term can also be used for the variable lists found in the menus of some graphical programs that maintain, for example, a listing of recently accessed files or commands.
 * (command), an implementation of the command history feature found in many operating system shells
 * HISTORY (CONFIG.SYS directive), a console history configuration setting in any issue of DR DOS
 * Changelog, or history, a log or record of changes in computer projects
 * A database transaction schedule, also called a history, in the fields of databases and transaction processing
 * Web browsing history, the log of pages a user has visited on the web

Other uses

 * History, a concept in the study of internal validity which refers to events outside of a scientific experiment or between repeated measures of the dependent variable that may have effect on the experiment's internal validity
 * Medical history, the history of a patient