History (disambiguation)

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History is the study of the past.

History may also refer to:

General

• History of the Earth
• History of the world, the history of humanity
• Natural history
• Philosophy of history

Arts, entertainment, and media

Computing

• history (Unix), an implementation of the Command history feature found in many Unix or Unix-compatible operating systems.
• Changelog, or history, a log or record of changes in computer projects
• 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.
• Schedule (computer science), also called history, in the fields of databases and transaction processing

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

See also

• Herstory, feminism
• Historia (disambiguation)
• Histories (disambiguation)
• Natural history (disambiguation)
• Prehistory