Or if you want a superficial, non-challenging history/conspiracy/adventure, try the Grantville series (aka 1632 aka Ring of Fire), main author Eric Flint.

In the year 2000, a 5-mile radius centered around a small West Virginia town is science-fictionally transported to the year 1632, in northern Germany; they engage with the world as they find it, and create an alternate history. There’s only a few thousand people, but they’ve got a coal-fired electric plant, a small hospital, some machine shops, the high school has a chemistry lab, every house has a couple of hunting rifles and some of the Vietnam vets have larger weapons stashed in their backyards, there’s an Olympics-calibre biathlete for their sniper, etc.

The series goes on for years, by multiple authors, there’s a town newspaper written by multiple authors (up to volume 47 now I think).

The first book is free
baenebooks.com

(OMG we have to open trade relations with the Ottomans, coffeecoffeecoffee nobody else in the world has coffee!!!!)