The term "historical middle" is valid and usable in written English.
This term is typically used to refer to a period of time in history between two other eras, as in "the historical middle between the Medieval and Early Modern periods".
However so does the US, with its increasing racial conflicts, especially between police and black citizens and the growing gap between lower and upper economic class citizens that has seen a dramatic reduction in the historical middle-class.
The "middle" is the historical Middle English period where the language settled into the one we recognise today.
According to not just Goldberg but several historical sources, the middle of the twentieth century saw the continued durability of the blood libel, the peculiar canard about Jews using the blood of murdered Christian children to make matzo (which makes you wonder, of course, whether anti-Semites have ever even seen matzo).
The Renaissance is considered here as a cultural movement which bridged two historical epochs, the Middle Ages and early modernity.
After some very polite inquiries about historical research a middle-aged woman sitting at the back spoke up.
PKF predicts that the industry will end 2012 with average occupancy of 61.4 percent, and will pass the historical average by the middle of next year.
Transalpine Gaul came into existence as a distinct historical entity in the middle of the 1st century bce, through the campaigns of Julius Caesar (c. 100 44 bce), and disappeared late in the 5th century ce.
By comparison, Newsweek's historical traction with the middle parts of the country — a magazine your small town dentist was proud to display — no longer is seen as a source of strength.
The book presented Spain's 20th-century disasters in terms of the historical failures of the middle classes to overcome the resistance of a recalcitrant landed oligarchy to the political, economic and intellectual modernisation of the country.
