While everyone is working at home, we wanted to reach out with our staff recommendations on what we’re reading and watching ourselves! Many are history related, some are directly related to our sites, and some are just ones we liked.
BOOKS
:
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Bound to the Fire by Kelley Fanto Deetz
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits by Chip Colwell
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums by Amy Lonetree
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
Maude by Donna Mabry
Under a Flaming Sky
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of the Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
Killers of the Flower Moon
A Reverence for Wood by Eric Sloane
The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio
Jacksonland by Steve Inskeep
The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty
White Trash by Nancy Isenberg
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty by Jon Kukla
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyages of the Slave Ship Antelope by Johnathan M. Bryant
MOVIES AND TV:
Bohemian Rhapsody staring Rami Malek
The Repair Shop on BBC (available through Netflix)
Emma (available through Amazon Prime)
