In the world of reference librarians, your question is known as a stumper. I sent it to the Chicago Public Library, but their trusty reference sleuths, who have always come through in the past, couldn’t come up with a title for the book that matched your description. However, they offered some suggestions (I doubt that it’s the Zinn opus):
A people’s history of the United States, 1492-present
Zinn, Howard
American History
John A Garraty
The Story of America
John A. Garraty
1,001 Things Everyone Should Know About American History
John A. Garraty
The Reader’s Companion to American History
John A. Garraty
There are chronologies that list events in chronological order.
The Timetables of American History
Laurence Urdang
Others do a comprehensive treatment of world history:
An Unfinished History of the World
Hugh Thomas
The Outline of History Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
Herbert George Wells
Well, you are amazing. Thanks so much for trying. I cannot believe you put so much time into this. Thank you so much!
I will keep looking for that book. Maybe I have the title all wrong, but I don’t think so. I will check out the other ones you listed. Thank you again so much! You went above and beyond!