[DubiousPusher]

For a primer on this period take a listen to the now defunct Bing Thinking History Podcast

http://bingethinkinghistory.blogspot.com/?m=1

And the early episodes of Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast.

https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/

Together these really disabused of the propaganda taught in American schools like that the entire world was under tyranny before the American Republic, that the founders were geniuses that came up with religious toleration, consent of governed and seperation of powers all on their own, etc.