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Hello, Alla.
As the ancient proverb historia magistra vitae est says (history is the mentor of life). History, as a science, shows the epochs lived by mankind. Each epoch had its own level and type of life and, accordingly, its own peculiarities of thought. People have always thought about the meaning of life and the structure of the world, but only in the West has this become systematic. Philosophy has become a theory, a condition for the development of natural and human sciences.
We can say that the mentor is actually philosophy, and history is an example of life that philosophy reflects on. Immanuel Kant said: sensations without concepts are blind, and concepts without sensations are empty. We can paraphrase his idea as follows: history without philosophy is blind, and philosophy without history is empty.
History gives the facts of life, and philosophy makes sense of them. Social philosophy is directly related to history, and other branches of philosophy are related to other sciences and areas of life. But the story contains the whole life. If you study not only political and social history, but also the history of culture, economics, law, science and art, then you will discover the facts of life in all its diversity. Philosophy allows us to bring these facts into a single system of knowledge.
The story does not have a subjunctive mood, only an indicative mood. Accordingly, there are no causes, consequences, conclusions, or explanations. This is all a philosophy that is always present even in the work of a historian, otherwise history will be a dry protocol of the past.
On the other hand, all philosophers took examples from history and nature (two books of life). Otherwise, it turns out one scholasticism, devoid of facts.
This is the connection between philosophy and history, like the connection between Kant's sensations and concepts, the connection between memory and thinking, which together makes up reason, and therefore knowledge of life.
The connection can be traced in two aspects: first, philosophy develops historically: from the first natural philosophers to modern metamodernists; philos-phy as a science goes through certain stages of historical development. Secondly, many philosophical concepts have become the theoretical basis for historical research. Thus, Hegel's concept of the development of the world spirit was superimposed on the development of states. An even more significant example is Marxism, which became the main theory and methodology of Soviet historical science for decades.