Here, to give you a small sense of European colonialism’s massive scale, is a map showing every country put under partial or total European control during the colonial era, which ran roughly ...

You can purchase it here. This is just a fantastic map of the last year that every country in Europe, and a handful in the Middle East, was occupied by a foreign power: There are a few strange ...

Alaska's GDP is about the same size as the tiny European country of Luxembourg. Altogether, the map drives home just how massive the U.S. economy really is. U.S. GDP was about $17.4 trillion in ...