This chapter analyzes how the historical summary functions as a useful form of storytelling at Qumran. While scholars have often remarked on the lack of historiographical texts at Qumran, the historical summary is preserved in several forms and influences the way that history was told and retold at Qumran. This chapter focuses on the historical psalms as a test case for the use of the historical summary as a form of history telling at Qumran. Manuscript evidence provides information concerning how the psalm form functioned as a medium of cultural memory. Literary evidence for the regular communal recitation of the historical psalms and their social importance is demonstrated through explicit rhetorical reflection on the practice, the formal and liturgical characteristics of these collections, and text-critical signs of oral-written variation. Finally, the presentation of selective examples in 4Q422, Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus, and 4Q243/244, Pseudo-Daniela-b, will demonstrate how the psalms were not only performed as commemorative media themselves but also influenced the generation of new commemorative speech through their combination and collision with other story-telling forms.