annals vs history

annals and history both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
annals	Yes	No	No	No
history	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, history is a hypernym of annals; that is, history is a word with a broader meaning than annals:

Other hypernyms of annals include account, chronicle, story.

annals (noun)	history (noun)
a chronological account of events in successive years	the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
reports of the work of a society or learned body etc	all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
	a record or narrative description of past events
	the aggregate of past events
	the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future