HISTORY
There are so many things in this word. Origin, development, directions, innovation, evolution, change, metamorphosis, power, race, gender, domination.
First of all, not everyone gets to write the content of history. Only important persons get to write history; as the matter of fact, only what theythinkshould be history are recorded as history. In the process of history formation (by those who get to write it), topics are “selected” out of many others that are “less” important. Here, there lies a considerable amount of judgement onwhat are more and less important than othersthat should be written as history. It is not only the judgement itself but the judgement of a group of people (not everyone involved in the content of history).
It is fair to say then that history is only another kind of story like such things as bedtime story, ghost story, and rumours. It is not always true. It may be not true at all in some cases. Like all other stories, it is up to our own judgement (again) what to believe or not to believe. Human may praise history over other types of story but really there is no rigid evidence that history is more credible than all those we have heard.