Definitions of history:

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

  Example: "He teaches Medieval history"

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

  Example: "The dawn of recorded history"

• noun:   a record or narrative description of past events

  Example: "A history of France"

• noun:   the aggregate of past events

  Example: "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

  Example: "All of human history"