I had a similar problem in IE9. The History tab in Favourites seemed to be ok, but the history web sites was not shown in the web address field (http://www..............).
In the Manage Add-ins the Web Search Provider must not be empty. In my case it probably disappered when I did a IE restore settings. I added Google as my Web Search Provider and now the web site history can be seen in the web address field (http://www..............).