The phrase "a historical summary" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a concise overview or account of past events or developments in a particular context.
Example: "The report includes a historical summary of the company's growth over the last decade."
Alternatives: "a historical overview" or "a historical account".
In this brief review a historical summary of the applications associated with the coefficient of friction and its tunability, as well as the changing drivers for materials' development from empirical to surface-reconstruction based understanding are discussed.
An unofficial site offering a historical summary on the OAU, with many photographs -- based on interviews with and the personal papers of Ketema Yifru, who served as Foreign Minister of Ethiopia during the Haile Selassie years.
To untangle the confusion and controversies surrounding the body plan concept, it is necessary to visit its history (see Table 1 for a historical summary).
The two teams at the CERN Large Hadron Collider that detected this elusive particle have in this issue provided a more widely accessible version of their detailed findings published earlier this year in Physics Letters B. These articles are accompanied by a historical summary and overview of this seminal discovery (p. 1560).
Family vaults can serve as a historical summary of Iraq's wars and natural catastrophes.
A historical summary of the conflicts surrounding the countries included in this analysis are described in Table 1.
The volume contains a full historical summary of the work of previous investigators and travellers, adds much that is new, and supplies a series of vivid descriptions of the peculiar vegetation of this quarter of the globe.
This article gives a brief historical summary of observations leading up to this conclusion, and after outlining some of the problems surrounding the formation of complex chromosomes exchanges, speculates about possible solutions currently being proposed.
We begin with a short historical summary of the studied problem.
There has been a gradual increase in research into doctor migration between higher income countries, with Zubaran providing a useful historical summary [ 18].
One of the editors (whose list of milestones displays the clinical emphasis of the book) has provided a nice historical summary.
