The phrase "historically aware" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has knowledge and understanding of historical events, contexts, or perspectives.
Example: "To engage in meaningful discussions about current events, it is essential to be historically aware of the factors that have shaped our society."
Alternatives: "historically informed" or "historically knowledgeable."
Pasolini's earliest poems were written in Friulian dialect: his ambition was for Friulano-speaking peasant communities to become "historically aware"; he, Pasolini, would be the medium of their awareness.
He was a rooted and historically aware English radical.
SEAN WILENTZ: Alas, Ester, being well-educated, these days, does not necessarily mean being historically aware.
The movement encourages members of the African diaspora to be culturally and historically aware of their origins.
And on the other, a vision of art that is politically engaged, historically aware and socially inclusive.
QUESTION FROM ESTER JL: Considering that you do not think Tea Partiers are "historically aware," what about the fact that most Tea Partiers are well educated?
Writing about the collapse of similar populations in the Hebrides, Neat (2000) suggests: one common thread would appear to be the unwillingness of even the most stoical and historically-aware communities to continue an existence based upon endless physical hardship when the opportunity of an easier livelihood elsewhere is there to be taken.
But so intense is the demoralisation of many previously regnant elites that historically self-aware criticism – the fundamental tenet of the Enlightenment – in recent decades has often shaded into fervent self-pity or equally zealous cultural nativism.
The broad themes of his historically and psychologically aware production would be strong enough to withstand a less demanding supervisor.
I meant "historically and spiritually aware idiot".
But it is also aware that, historically, peaceful rises are the exception.
