I’m working on a long poem about the history of the United States, and I’m looking for good books about a general history of the United States. Not really looking for any specific time period in United States history, but instead a general history of it. Even tho the poem will be epic and long, I would still prefer not to mythologize anyone. So long as the book is about an overview of United States history and doesn’t take time to mythologize the founding fathers, I’m down.
by Borgisium
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[The American Yawp](https://www.americanyawp.com) is an open source US history textbook that is pretty decent.
Only book I’ve read about USA History:
* How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
These Truths by Jill Lepore
A Little History of the United States by James West Davidson