diff --git a/client/src/components/Grid/configs/historiesPublished.ts b/client/src/components/Grid/configs/historiesPublished.ts
index 6b9926179a04..1c5163c5f2a2 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Grid/configs/historiesPublished.ts
+++ b/client/src/components/Grid/configs/historiesPublished.ts
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ const gridConfig: GridConfig = {
     filtering: new Filtering(validFilters, undefined, false, false),
     getData: getData,
     plural: "Histories",
-    sortBy: "name",
+    sortBy: "update_time",
     sortDesc: true,
     sortKeys: ["name", "update_time", "username"],
     title: "Published Histories",