The phrase "a historical source of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a document, artifact, or other materials that provide information about past events or contexts.
Example: "The diary of a soldier from the Civil War serves as a historical source of insight into the daily lives of those who fought."
Alternatives: "a historical reference for" or "a historical document of".
"Thank you to all of the readers and members of the public who supported the project during the painstaking work needed to preserve the photographs". Scott Knight, of the faculty of arts at the University of Wolverhampton said the collection was a historical source capturing hundred of personal stories about the changes in life for the region.
A significant positive correlation between a given inorganic element and a given density estimate for a particular industry type can be interpreted as a potential historical source of soil contamination.
According to a historical source [23], alcoholic extract of soot was liberally applied to the wood of violins.
Regarded in the Middle Ages as nearly the peer of Statius and Lucan, Claudian is faulted by modern critics for rhetoric too elaborate for his inferior themes, but his work is valuable as a historical source, and his fertility of invention and scathing invective compel attention.
As such, the Orthodox religion is not a unique historical source of reference for the Greek Diaspora (as is Judaism, for example, in the case of the Jewish Diaspora).
Cabot also sampled one salt spring in Salt Springs State Park, a known historical source of methane gas located approximately 13 miles northeast of the Dimock Township.
Residence near municipal solid waste incinerators, a major historical source of dioxin emissions, has been associated with increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in European studies.
CDC's outpatient ILI surveillance system ILINet (Fig. 1 a), was another such historical source of severity, but it was excluded from the benchmark in order to prevent confounding when comparing the benchmark to an ILI-based severity index.
Cohen's second aim in the Religion is to show that Judaism has what he calls a special "methodological" significance for philosophy of religion, because it is the original historical source of a religion of reason (Cohen 1972 [1919], 8).
There is an irony to considering the historical source of these guidelines.
