May I also ask a language-related question. Why are you saying "story" in all these posts, when you are talking about a true story? I thought the word "history"

May I also ask a language-related question. Why are you saying "story" in all these posts, when you are talking about a true story? I thought the word "history" was to be used in those cases, but I think there is a subtler difference between story/history than I previously thought (I thought: story=fiction, history=non-fiction). Could anybody please give me a pointer on this?