I'd like to go through humanity's history in chronological order. From the first atom to our current day president. I have 2 years left at my university library and can and am willing to read complicated books on the matter. The problem is, is that I don't know what book would be the best place for the beginning for human evolution.
Hi, for human evolution - which happened way back in prehistory - please x-post this question to our sister sub /r/AskAnthropology. While there are some anthropologists here, this sub focuses on the historical past of homo sapiens sapiens.
What you're looking for does exist, and it's called Big History. This is a very new (and very small) field which seeks to situate human history on a cosmic scale, beginning with the formation of the universe and ending with modern times and even predictions of the future. It's very interesting as a thought experiment, and it's meant to be, in the words of David Christian, "a modern-day creation myth" that merges history with scientific fields to create a grand narrative for humanity. However you should be aware that history looks very different from this greatly zoomed-out perspective. Big History (and large-scale history in general) is not, as commonly assumed, a watered-down and condensed version of all smaller histories combined. No such thing really exists - History relies on perspective and thus differs depending on the scale one chooses. Big History also works more with theoretical models than with dates, facts, etc. Nevertheless I do recommend it - read David Christian's Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004; 2011).