diff --git a/assets/search/js/form.ts b/assets/search/js/form.ts
index f2cae138afa..4cda068cce1 100644
--- a/assets/search/js/form.ts
+++ b/assets/search/js/form.ts
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ export default class Form {
         const taxonomies = this.getTaxonomies()
 
         if (query === '' && Object.values(taxonomies).filter((item) => item.length > 0).length == 0) {
+            this.renderer.clean()
             this.renderer.renderHistories()
             return
         }
diff --git a/assets/search/js/renderer.ts b/assets/search/js/renderer.ts
index 5082b7ab18b..82a8d65d49b 100644
--- a/assets/search/js/renderer.ts
+++ b/assets/search/js/renderer.ts
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ export default class Renderer {
     }
 
     clean() {
+        this.results = []
         this.getContainer().innerHTML = ''
     }
 
@@ -211,8 +212,10 @@ export default class Renderer {
     }
 
     renderHistories() {
-        this.results = []
-        this.clean()
+        if (!params.histories) {
+            return
+        }
+
         const histories = Historiographer.get()
         let html = ''
         histories.forEach((history) => {
diff --git a/hugo.toml b/hugo.toml
index c73d2da04f5..7941ca5098f 100644
--- a/hugo.toml
+++ b/hugo.toml
@@ -50,4 +50,5 @@ expand_results_meta = false
 lazy_loading = true
 filter_taxonomies = true
 filter_years = true
+histories = true
 histories_count = 5
diff --git a/layouts/partials/search/assets/js-resource.html b/layouts/partials/search/assets/js-resource.html
index 81724adbf42..ceb5f3a1287 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/search/assets/js-resource.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/search/assets/js-resource.html
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
   "icons" $icons
   "indices" $indices
   "i18n" $i18n.Values
+  "histories" (default true site.Params.search.histories)
   "historiesCount" (default 5 site.Params.search.histories_count)
   "defaultLang" $defaultLang
   "langs" $langs.Values