Literature is a sort of English/language study.
e.g: Shakespear
History is the past, about wars, revolutions e.t.c.
e.g: World War II
Ronald E. Martin has written: 'The languages of difference' -- subject(s): American literature, Anthropology, Difference (Psychology) in literature, History, History and criticism, Literature and anthropology, Primitive societies in literature, Primitivism in literature, Race in literature 'The fiction of Joseph Hergesheimer'
I would say that literature came before history. Librarians put literature in the 800s and history in the 900s.
Amanda Anderson has written: 'The Way We Argue Now' -- subject(s): Debates and debating, Discussion, Reasoning, Theory (Philosophy) 'The powers of distance' -- subject(s): Alienation (Social psychology) in literature, Cosmopolitanism, Difference (Psychology) in literature, English literature, History, History and criticism, Irony in literature, Literature and society, Modernism (Literature), Postmodernism (Literature)
Helena Michie has written: 'The flesh made word' -- subject(s): Body, Human, in literature, English literature, Feminism and literature, History and criticism, Painting, Victorian, Victorian Painting, Women in art, Women in literature 'Sororophobia' -- subject(s): History and criticism, Women authors, Feminism and literature, English literature, Psychology, Difference (Psychology) in literature, American literature, Women and literature, Women
Cyraina E. Johnson-Roullier has written: 'Reading on the edge' -- subject(s): Canon (Literature), Criticism and interpretation, Difference (Psychology) in literature, Exiles in literature, History, Homosexuality and literature, Literature and anthropology, Modernism (Literature), Silence in literature
Joseph G. Kronick has written: 'Derrida and the future of literature' -- subject(s): Literature, Politics and literature, Theory, Democracy, History and criticism 'American poetics of history' -- subject(s): American literature, History and criticism, Literature and history, History in literature
Dana Phillips has written: 'The truth of ecology' -- subject(s): American literature, Ecology in literature, Environmental policy in literature, Environmental protection in literature, Environmentalism, Historiography, History, History and criticism, Natural history, Natural history literature, Nature in literature
Reuben Post Halleck has written: 'History of English literature' -- subject(s): English literature, History and criticism 'The story of English literature' -- subject(s): English literature, History and criticism '...Founders of our nation' -- subject(s): History, Juvenile literature 'New English literature' -- subject(s): English literature, History and criticism
Tim Armstrong has written: 'Colour Perception' 'The logic of slavery' -- subject(s): African American authors, Commodification, Slavery in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Slavery in art, Reification, Psychological aspects, Economic aspects, History 'Haunted Hardy' -- subject(s): History, Literature and history, Ghosts in literature, Death in literature, Autobiographical memory in literature, History in literature, Poetic works, Memory in literature 'Modernism, technology, and the body' -- subject(s): Technology in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Psychology in literature, Modernism (Literature), Literature and science, Body, Human, in literature, History
Stefanie Lehner has written: 'Subaltern ethics in contemporary Scottish and Irish literature' -- subject(s): In literature, History and criticism, Ethics in literature, Irish authors, English fiction, Scottish authors, History in literature, History and literature, History
Edward Albert has written: 'A short history of English literature' 'History of English Literature' 'The story of English literature' -- subject- s -: English literature, History and criticism
Paul B. Miller has written: 'Elusive origins' -- subject(s): Enlightenment, Literature and history, History in literature, Intellectual life, Caribbean literature, History and criticism, Modernism (Literature), In literature