"historical examination" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are examining an event, idea, or person from its historical context, for example: "This historical examination of the French Revolution sheds light on the origins of modern revolutionary movements."
Archaeologists reopened the underground complex, which has again become a focus of historical examination.
Baur's methods helped to make Christianity subject to critical historical examination.
I am aware of the conflicts; I know the Book of Mormon doesn't stand up to historical examination.
His latest work, "The Retributionists," a historical examination of violent revenge, is based on a 1946 Jewish plot to strike Germany by a rebel group called the Avengers.
Powerful images by all go on view beginning tomorrow at the National Academy of Design, Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, in an exhibition billed as the first comprehensive historical examination of American art criticism.
This entertaining hodge-podge of a show, described as "the first comprehensive historical examination of American art criticism," brings together more than 70 paintings and sculptures that first appeared in these shows, with the reviews they got at the time.
At the quirkier end of historical biography are Frances Stonor Saunders's examination of the 14th-century mercenary leader John Hawkwood, and Blood and Roses by Helen Castor, a history of a 15th-century family of Norfolk landowners as revealed through their letters.
His work ranges from historical examinations of European Christian movements in the 16th and 17th centuries to satirical plays and allegorical fables in which, among other things, he subjects stories from the Old Testament to modern-day dialectical reason.
This book not only offered philological and historical examinations of individual literary works, from the Hebrew Bible and Homer to Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust, but also established an influential critical method, offering a history of culture through the close analyses of literary styles.
Other exhibitions created by Running Subway Productions in this space are typically more extroverted, whether they are large commercial ventures (a second show here is based on the television franchise "CSI") or substantial historical examinations of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions or Pompeii's ruins.
Historians, too, have begun to consider the human longing for natural landscapes, though historical examinations of homesickness tend to be similarly focused on longing for family and familiar built environments.
