The phrase "a historical concept" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing ideas, theories, or frameworks that pertain to history or have historical significance.
Example: "The notion of democracy as a historical concept has evolved over centuries, reflecting changes in society and governance."
Alternatives: "a historical idea" or "a historical notion".
Then there is her disturbingly modern take on that old Puritan bugaboo, original sin, which she presents less as a theological than as a historical concept.
Among his listed interests there were both "I love my Apple iPad" and "Islamic caliphate state", a historical concept that refers to a supreme Islamic nation pure in its religion.
Yet it is not simply an amalgamation of aesthetics and history that is required, but their radical rethinking in accordance with first a historical concept of essence and second a philosophical concept of history.
Lineage is usually a historical concept (i.e. a multi-generational succession of related organisms, or something similar), which matches many intuitions we have concerning species.
Schools often present feminism as a hazy historical concept revolving around women jumping in front of horses and generally outraging the sensibilities of upper-class gentlemen.
Complicating matters further, some analysts say that Ayatollah Khamenei's denial of Iranian nuclear ambitions has to be seen as part of a Shiite historical concept called taqiyya, or religious dissembling.
It does not seem to follow that science is a purely historical concept with no essential connection to explanatory aims.
The idea here is that if the reason that anything we'd take to be a Φ-tradition would have Ψ-concerns is that our Φ-tradition has focused on Ψ-concerns since its inception, then it is not essential to Φ-traditions that they have Ψ-concerns, and Φ is a purely historical concept.
The concept of perezhivanie (vivencia in Spanish) is a cultural - historical concept used as a unit of analysis to understand affective dimensions of everyday experience.
Whiteness, like all racial identities, is a relatively recent historical concept, conceived during European colonialism and American slavery as a way to empower poor whites with "whiteness" and divide them politically and economically from other disenfranchised people.
The show could have been an opportunity to break scholarly ground: to examine the role of class in ancient Greece, or to consider the lives of women and children, or to reconsider what classicism means as a value-laden historical concept.
