Here's a list of history books I've read and recommend.

2021:

The Revolution in Virginia by John Selby

The Dawn's Early Light by Walter Lord

This Land is Their Land by David Silverman

A Quiet Trailblazer by Mary Frances Early

Medicine in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century by Wyndham Blanton

Longitude by Dava Sobel

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2022:

Secret Cures of Slaves by Londa Schiebinger

Medicine in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Wyndham Blanton

Colonial Botany by Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan

Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf

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