The term "historical essence" is correct and usable in written English.
You may use it to describe the fundamental aspects of a particular historical event or period. For example, "Although it's been centuries since the Age of Exploration, its historical essence lives on in the cultures and languages of today."
The articles describing the art works contains the data of historical essence.
Restored to its historical essence in 1979, and containing the original judge's bench, four tables, dais rail, jury chairs and spectator seats, it's everything I dreamed of for the Trial of the Century -- huge, majestic, beautiful.
"It is of the historical essence of habeas corpus that it lies to test proceedings so fundamentally lawless that imprisonment pursuant to them is not merely erroneous but void". Fay v. Noia, 372 U.S. 391, 423, 83 S.Ct.
The statistical record is so central to the game's "historical essence" that Chadwick came to be known as Father Baseball.
Kripke regards material individuals as having historical essences.
To borrow a phrase from Paul Griffiths, perhaps it is not that theories need histories and essences perhaps what they need are historical essences.
In the light of cladism in biology, one may regard biological taxa as having historical essences also, and this is consistent with the general picture given to us by Kripke and Putnam, even if they themselves once thought that biological kinds had microstructural essences (McGinn 1976; Kornblith 1993, 111; LaPorte 2004, 64).
Over more than three millenniums and many historical eras, the essence of the Jewish faith has been the embrace of the meticulously preserved mass testimony that God freed the Jewish people from servitude to ancient Egypt and gave them the Torah.
Yet it is not simply an amalgamation of aesthetics and history that is required, but their radical rethinking in accordance with first a historical concept of essence and second a philosophical concept of history.
While it's very important to consider your own associations when trying to understand a dream symbol, it's also often helpful to consider what the more historical and objective essence of that symbol is.
For more on Heidegger's historical understanding of essences (which is closer to Hegel than to Plato, but lacks Hegel's teleological commitments), see Thomson 2005, pp. 52-61.
