history vs recital

history and recital both are nouns.

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

As nouns, recital is a hyponym of history; that is, recital is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than history:

history (noun)	recital (noun)
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings	the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge	a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
a record or narrative description of past events	performance of music or dance especially by soloists
the aggregate of past events	a detailed account or description of something
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future