I really see history a little different than Hegel. He certainly looks for the overall direction of history and believes that The Absolute Spirit reveals Himself in history. However he sees the peak as  the Prussia under Frederick William III. On one hand that makes sense because under the different kings of Prussia from Fredrick the Great and down until WWI, Prussia had a nice combination of order with freedom. And Hegel certainly sees Freedom with Reason as being the goal of the Absolute Spirit. [Freedom is not just lack of constraints, but also not less than that. So if there is any external constraint ,that is not freedom. Rather means there is no external constraint but there is internal constraint ,e.g. as when a person makes goals for himself and then constrains himself to fulfill the, That is freedom.]People that used [and use] Hegel to support  totalitarian systems were not going with Hegel, who was 100% a conservative. Private property and family values.]

But I just can not see Prussia in the same light as Hegel. To me, it seems clear the the real organic development of freedom really happened in England with the Magna Carta, and later in the USA with the Constitution of the USA and with the Federalists Papers which show the reason behind the Constitution.

Though nowadays I admit that the cause of freedom in the USA has taken a hit. So when I think of the type of unique combination of freedom with reason that Hegel was thinking of, it makes more sense to refer this back to a somewhat earlier period. Nowadays things do look different.

But I think that Hegel would see modern developments as being some further development of freedom. [In some way that is not clear right now.]