Preservation Virginia Blog

Apr
2

What Are We Reading?

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

:Amazon.com: The Book of Night Women: Marlon James: Books

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James

Bound to the Fire by Kelley Fanto Deetz

The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Amazon.com: Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of ...

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: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland ...

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 Churchill, Family, and ...

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

Amazon.com: The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered (9780307387455 ...

The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio

Jacksonland by Steve Inskeep

The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America ...

White Trash by Nancy Isenberg

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty by Jon Kukla

Amazon.com: Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship ...

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)

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