diff --git a/frontend_tests/node_tests/stream_topic_history.js b/frontend_tests/node_tests/stream_topic_history.js
index 61713e41cb..2e84803c92 100644
--- a/frontend_tests/node_tests/stream_topic_history.js
+++ b/frontend_tests/node_tests/stream_topic_history.js
@@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ run_test('server_history', () => {
 
     function add_server_history() {
         stream_topic_history.add_history(stream_id, [
-            { topic_name: 'local', max_id: 501 },
-            { topic_name: 'hist2', max_id: 31 },
-            { topic_name: 'hist1', max_id: 30 },
+            { name: 'local', max_id: 501 },
+            { name: 'hist2', max_id: 31 },
+            { name: 'hist1', max_id: 30 },
         ]);
     }
 
@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ run_test('server_history', () => {
     // topics in the future, if they dropped off due to renames,
     // but that is probably an edge case we can ignore for now.
     stream_topic_history.add_history(stream_id, [
-        { topic_name: 'hist2', max_id: 931 },
-        { topic_name: 'hist3', max_id: 5 },
+        { name: 'hist2', max_id: 931 },
+        { name: 'hist3', max_id: 5 },
     ]);
     history = stream_topic_history.get_recent_topic_names(stream_id);
     assert.deepEqual(history, ['hist2', 'hist1', 'hist3']);
@@ -253,9 +253,9 @@ run_test('server_history_end_to_end', () => {
     const stream_id = 99;
 
     const topics = [
-        { topic_name: 'topic3', max_id: 501 },
-        { topic_name: 'topic2', max_id: 31 },
-        { topic_name: 'topic1', max_id: 30 },
+        { name: 'topic3', max_id: 501 },
+        { name: 'topic2', max_id: 31 },
+        { name: 'topic1', max_id: 30 },
     ];
 
     let get_success_callback;
diff --git a/static/js/stream_topic_history.js b/static/js/stream_topic_history.js
index 45350c1d7d..f2efddbf07 100644
--- a/static/js/stream_topic_history.js
+++ b/static/js/stream_topic_history.js
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ exports.per_stream_history = function (stream_id) {
         // client can maintain for newer topics.
 
         for (const obj of server_history) {
-            const topic_name = obj.topic_name;
+            const topic_name = obj.name;
             const message_id = obj.max_id;
 
             const existing = topics.get(topic_name);