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The designation "Historical Books" is a modern designation.

Kings and Chronicles are both included in the Jewish Canon. Kings was part of the "Former Prophets" and Chronicles was part of "The Writings". I probably stated that Chronicles was part of the prophets, but was mistaken. It appears that it was part of the writings (which was dominated by the Psalms but included much more).

Calling something "The Historical Books" was a modern designation.

CRI has a good chart to show the differences...

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Jewish	Catholic/Orthodox	Protestant
Torah	Pentateuch	Pentateuch
Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy	Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy	Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy
Prophets (Former)	Historical Books	Historical Books
Joshua Judges 1-2 Samuel (1-2 Kings) 1 1-2 Kings (3-4 Kings)	Joshua Judges Ruth 1-2 Kings (1-2 Samuel) 1 3-4 Kings (1-2 Kings) 1-2 Chronicles Ezra (1 Esdras) 2 Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 2 Tobit Judith Esther* adds: Additions to Esther 1-2 Maccabees 3	Joshua Judges Ruth 1-2 Samuel (1-2 Kings) 1 1-2 Kings (3-4 Kings) 1-2 Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther
Prophets (Latter)
Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Book of the Twelve 4
The Writings	Wisdom Books	Poetic Books
Psalms Proverbs Job Song of Songs Ruth Lamentations Ecclesiastes Esther Daniel Ezra Nehemiah 1-2 Chronicles	Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Songs Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus 5	Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Songs
	Prophets	Prophets
	Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Baruch Ezekiel Daniel* adds: Song of the Three Hebrew Children, Bel and the Dragon, Susanna The Twelve 4	Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel The Twelve 4

1 In the Greek tradition (the Septuagint and some modern traditions that follow the Eastern church tradition), 1 and 2 Samuel are combined with the books of Kings, known as 1-4 Kings. In most Protestant canons of the Western Church, the books are known as 1-2 Samuel (1-2 Kings) and 1-2 Kings (3-4 Kings).

2 The books of Ezra and Nehemiah were originally combined into a single book. The combined book, Ezra-Nehemiah, was sometimes referred to as Esdras (Hb: Ezra, Gk: Esdras) but called 1 Esdras in the early Greek translations to distinguish it from another book from the same period (containing 2 Chron 35-36, Neh 7:38-8:12, plus other material not found in the Old Testament) that was also known as Esdras. While this second book was sometimes also called 1 Esdras it later came to be known as 2 Esdras. Still a third pseudepigraphic book of apocalyptic visions entitled Esdras was circulated a little later and was also know as 2 Esdras. After Ezra-Nehemiah was split into two books, Ezra was known as 1 Esdras, Nehemiah as 2 Esdras, the expanded OT version book as 3 Esdras, and the apocalyptic book as 4 Esdras.

3 There are also a 3 and 4 Maccabees, but these were never considered to be biblical books. The Greek Orthodox Church does not accept 1 and 2 Maccabees.

4 The Book of the Twelve contains the remaining 12 prophetic books: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. These are sometimes called the Minor Prophets in Christian tradition due to their shorter length, while the longer prophetic books are called the Major Prophets.

5 Also known as the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira or Sirach.