I am college educated. I've only had an intro history class though. I guess what I'm looking for is something that touches on events that I probably wasn't taught in my US History classes, but also something that sort of goes through a timeline and doesn't focus on one issue...I want a book that does a pretty good job summarizing a pretty large chunk of time but covers some things I probably have never heard of.
I highly recommend Why You Can't Teach United States History Without American Indians ed. by Susan Sleeper-Smith. It goes through all the holes in university survey courses about US history from the perspective of how Native American agency and history are left out of the narrative. It covers a wide range of topics such as the fur trade, the American Revolution, slavery, the Civil War, the Gold Rush, the New Deal, the Reading Revolution, urbanization, conflicts about religious liberty... the list goes on. There's also two great chapters about the problems of how maps in US history survey textbooks are made to exclude Indigenous territories, thus devaluing their political legitimacies.