history vs yesteryear

history and yesteryear both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of history include past, past times.

history (noun)	yesteryear (noun)
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings	the time that has elapsed
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