What is the difference between using "verbal history" and other alternative terms?

It’s usually referred to as “oral” history, and it is usually present in society do not have written records.

@Strauss I’m asking about the correct usage of the different terms.

I’ve never seen the term “verbal history”. Even a search for the term “verbal history” turns up a list of sites about “oral history”.
Are you asking about the history of human speech?

If you’re asking about correct usage, then @Strauss is spot on. “Oral” refers to “spoken” in all usage pertaining to words. “Verbal” history – to the extent that the term has any meaning it all (because it’s not common usage) – means (always means) “in words”. So that would refer to the text of any history, whether spoken or written.

People frequently misuse the adjective “verbal”. A “verbal agreement”, for example, is just “an agreement in words”, which can refer to a contract document. An “oral agreement”, though, the term that more properly applies in these cases, simply means “a spoken, unwritten agreement”.

I prefer the terms “hearsay” and “folklore”.

—@ragingloli Unless someone is presenting a first-person account, all history is hearsay.

Oral history can also be history that was told to someone as a first person account and then written down. In those cases, such as an oral history of the concentration camps, participants may have told their stories to the author or editor who then quotes them or paraphrases extensively. Thus, it doesn’t only refer to societies without writing.

So, take the medication verbally? The food made its exit verbally?

Thanks all. BTW, to answer your question @YARNLADY‘s no I wasn’t referring to the history of human speech.

…@YARNLADY I was asking about history of whatever, that’s not documented.