Definition of "History" :

noun: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings

"He teaches Medieval history."

noun: all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge

"The dawn of recorded history."

noun: a record or narrative description of past events

"A history of France."

noun: the aggregate of past events

"A critical time in the school's history."

noun: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

"All of human history."