'historical phenomena' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
An example sentence using the phrase is: "Scientists have studied historical phenomena to gain insight into the past."
Major historical phenomena of this kind rarely receive final, decisive interpretations, but several assertions may be ventured.
"Atonement" concerns, among other historical phenomena, puritanism in 1935, when an impulsive four-letter word in a man's love letter could draw the attention of the authorities.
Alain Corbin, writing about France, characterizes bell ringing as one of the historical phenomena that, "even though close to us in time, bear witness to a paradoxical distance".
As a historian, Teggart sought, in the manner of a scientist, to relate isolated historical phenomena (datable events) to a general class of phenomena by means of comparison.
This dialectic involves the experience of the transcendent in which the sacred (infinite, eternal, nonhistorical) paradoxically manifests itself through ordinarily profane (finite, temporal, historical) phenomena.
I don't believe the two are essentially connected, but I do think that as historical phenomena they have one important thing in common; they are both almost infinitely flexible in the way they co-opt partners and causes.
One is in what way we can understand the irreducibly subjective values held by the historical actors in an objective fashion, and the other, by what criteria we can select a certain historical phenomenon as opposed to another as historically significant subject matter worthy of our attention.
The curious historical phenomenon of Labourism – Britain's very own historic compromise between capitalism and the working class – had run its course.
Minimalism is a historical phenomenon.
Gautier's culprit was a very real historical phenomenon.
Nor is this an exclusively Asian historical phenomenon.
