I highly recommend this audio book:
America: The First 350 Years by Steve Wilkins
It is very long. Wilkins is a minister and covers very interesting topics such as how schools were operating in colonial times and up to about 1850 or so when government got involved. He covers things like how charity is suppose to work and how the government stuck their noses into it, both sides of the civil war run up and not just one side, need for expansion etc...
Awesome, History is one of those things they seems to forget to teach you when you go have to go to public school, so I’m always looking to learn more from a non-revisionist source.