The phrase "an historical interpretation" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts where one is discussing a specific analysis or understanding of historical events or phenomena.
Example: "The author provides an historical interpretation of the events leading up to the war, highlighting the social and economic factors involved."
Alternatives: "a historical analysis" or "a historical perspective".
(In his memoir, Evans treats Coppola's takeover of their nightmarish production, "The Cotton Club," as revenge for Evans's hands-on association with "The Godfather"—a historical interpretation that can cut both ways).
Baron was equally opposed to the ideas advanced by Ernst Kantorowicz and others about the pioneering modernity of the autocratic state of Frederic II in Sicily and Southern Italy, a historical interpretation that was difficult to square with a liberal and optimistically progressivist view of history.
He described "collective trauma," a deep-rooted fear which is common to the subconscious of every human being and applied to this individual phenomenon a historical interpretation.
It was, in fact, a considerable extension of the Monroe Doctrine, not a correct historical interpretation of it, but it remained the cornerstone of American policy in the Caribbean at least until 1928.
Gardner writes that "Mayr gave a firmly historical interpretation of ultimate explanations" (but then takes issue with this, and recasts ultimate causation as "adaptive rationale").
While Lovell's book does little to query a rather hackneyed historical interpretation, it is an important reminder of how the memory of the opium war continues to cast a dark shadow".
For Schenke, the tradition of Joseph's burial at Shechem can only be understood as a secondary, Israelitic historical interpretation woven around a more ancient Canaanite shrine in that area.
This is not just a matter of historical interpretation; it has implications for public policy today and in the future.
In other words, the realist interpretation of world politics is precisely that: a cultural and historical interpretation.
And it's a matter of historical interpretation.
