Looking ahead to history is a sick sentence. Usually we talk about reviewing history, remembering history, remembering history, learning from history, looking forward to the future, facing the future and so on.

Outlook means: pointing to the distance; Looking to the future; Assess the future of things.

Source of Prospect: Geological Light of Xu Chi: Mourning the dead friend and looking forward to the new China. On that freighter, looking forward to the future, he wrote brilliant academic papers. Preface to the translation of Lu Xun's "Two Hearts": They don't realize that only by looking at the whole country can they achieve something.

Synonym of outlook: looking forward, forecasting and forecasting.

The antonym of prospect: look back, look back, look back again.