Seconded. Event lists are just pointers. To get to lived experience one needs contemporaneous correspondence and diaries, like the letter from Wilbur Wright to his sister in law I pointed to a while back
Biography alone won’t get there because it’s retrospective and doesn’t capture the uncertainty of a moment, but a good or better biography will have a good bibliography with pointers to these contemporaneous sources. And more and more of these sources are digitized and available to find