'repeat the history' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to reiterate the events of the past, or to encourage people to not repeat the mistakes of the past. For example: "Let's not repeat the history of previous failed attempts and instead try something new."
Speak to Icelandic construction workers and they'll repeat the history of mishaps that have befallen those who failed to heed elven warnings.
It must not, he says, repeat the history of the three Australian booms of the past 60 years, each of which ended in runaway inflation and recession.
Industrial growth began to produce an urban working class, which seemed fated to repeat the history of workers in the early stages of industrial capitalism in Western countries.
Afterward, he told me that Bolivia "would not repeat the history of Potosí." Bolivia, he went on, had an obligation to guarantee to the world a steady and reliable supply of lithium "for the next hundred or two hundred years".
I would not wish to expose any of our staff and patients to ridicule or to repeat the history of Bedlam – when the rich paid to see "mad" patients as entertainment.
And Bush II seems, on the face of it, to be trying to repeat the history of Bush I.In this section Where should Mr Bush put his chips now?
Having repeated the history as tragedy, Hollywood is repackaging it as farce.
We are simply repeating the history of the 1980's and 90's when we failed to meet any of the eight goals in "Goals 2000 Education".
And again, if this needs to be repeated, the history of profoundly disruptive technologies such as XML, RSS, Twitter, and indeed everything about the current Web x.0 landscape comes in significant part from the combination of the bigcos and the so-called outsiders to the process.
You do know that you are repeating the history of the GOP in the Great Depression, advocating austerity and deficit fears before the economy even has its head above water?
Most importantly, if we are to avoid repeating the history of the '60s-'70s '60s-'70sndiscriminand spying upon firsthemendment-protected groups that took place durindiscriminatespyingple shouponcall their own elected congresspersons and senators and ask them to quickly convene new Church Committee-type hearings.
