"classic history" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a notable or significant event, person, or situation in history. For example: "The landing of the first men on the moon is a classic history moment that changed the course of human history."
Fehrenbach, was a classic history of the Korean War and the cost of unpreparedness.
"This looks good," she said, pulling out "The White Nile," Alan Moorehead's classic history of Egyptian exploration.
One hedge-fund trader, a Democrat, said that he'd recently reread (several times) John Kenneth Galbraith's classic history "The Great Crash, 1929".
This new blood "forever destroyed the identity of the unique Western organization," said Alan T. Nolan in his classic history of the unit.
In the classic History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century (1913), he dissociated himself from the widely held view that history is a mere science.
Perhaps best known in the West for his classic History of England, Macaulay left his most permanent mark on South Asia, where his penal code remains the law.
Certainly, the sources for medieval strategic thought lack the literary appeal of the classic histories of ancient Greece and Rome.
It is featured in classic histories of the postwar period, including Hodgson's "America in Our Time," Allen J.
The author of several classic histories of pop music including Rip It Up And Start Again, Generation Ecstasy and Retromania, Simon Reynolds is as well placed as anyone to understand how the Internet has changed the music industry.
When popping the question in New York City, one could easily be bewitched by the lure of classic, history-saturated locations from the Empire State Building to the Statue of Liberty.
Thomas, who will turn 80 in October, first appeared on the scene in 1961 with an enormous, still-classic history of the Spanish Civil War.
