Background: So, I work a customer assistance job overnights, and one of my regular guys that comes in always notices me reading a book and asks me about what I am reading. I am studying anthropology, archaeology, and ancient history, so my knowledge of history is that mostly of the old world. Recently he came up to me asking a specific question about the American Revolution, knowing how much of a history buff I am, and I was, well, stumped, then he asked me another in regards to the American Civil War, again, stumped. It bothered me so much that I remembered so little from my high school American history classes and I that I never delved much farther. So now I have decided to dedicate a couple months and dive into American history. So AskHistorians, what are 20-30 books from European settlement to the American Civil War should I read?