Need an american liberal reading list on philosophy/history

I'm seeing alot of "might makes right" arguments being used in my personal online spaces. Whether its about Trumps posturing on foreign policy with our allies or russian arguments that they're justified to take ukraine because they ruled it before. I feel like I lack some broad conceptual knowledge that would be useful.

Specifically Im looking for philosophy reading on broad stuff like, the Enlightment, the post liberal world order that emerged after ww2/cold war, self determination, etc. Ive read half of the federalist papers. I've read wikipedia on all these topics but I dont think that its enough. If anyone has recommendations Id appreciate it.