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Discover LudwigThe phrase "historical essay" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe an essay which deals with a specific historical event or era. For example, "For my first history assignment, I wrote a historical essay about the Civil War."
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At this point my guidebook's historical essay characteristically stops dead.
It's at once war memoir, documentary investigation, historical essay, psychotherapeutic narrative.
Christie's experts illustrated the Basel picture in their long historical essay on the Tour Eiffel series.
When he reaches the interwar period, Mishra shifts gear, away from intellectual biography towards historical essay.
In French it calls itself a récit – an account – and is really a historical essay with literary flourishes.
Turner may have had difficulty writing books, but he was a brilliant master of the historical essay.
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In 1869 Early settled in Lynchburg, Virginia, where he practiced law and wrote historical essays.
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The second innovation is the way he breaks into the narrative, introducing historical essays.
Forms of Discovery: Critical and Historical Essays on the Forms of the Short Poem appeared in 1967.
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