First came the French. A syndicate led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the diplomat who had led construction of the Suez Canal, ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber rattling once again. More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and ...

The late nineteenth century and early twentieth century was a time of rapid construction in the United States. To build a modern nation, workers built railroads, harbors, dams, bridges, and roads over ...

Bhag Singh’s grandson Darshan Singh Deol is on a mission to piece together his grandfather's lost legacy, seeking official ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection consists primarily of photographs--both loose and in albums--documenting the construction of the Panama Canal and life in the Panama ...

The Panama Canal is one of the most strategically vital waterways in the world. An engineering marvel that transformed global commerce, this maritime shortcut solidified the U.S.' geopolitical power ...

The Panama Canal, a 51-mile maritime shortcut linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is a crucial artery of global trade and a longstanding focal point of international geopolitics. Since its ...

It still stands as one of the 20th Century’s greatest feats of engineering: over a decade, vast battalions of workers braved illness and misadventure to carve a 50-mile long channel through the ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to regain U.S. ownership of the Panama Canal, which the United States previously ...

Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and its namesake canal that joins the Atlantic to the Pacific have become the ...