The House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to-day agreed to report favorably the Mann bill providing for the abolition of the Isthmian Canal Commission and the vesting of its powers in ...

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national, multi-decade project to link two oceans and transform global shipping. After completion in 1914, the canal helped turn the United States into an economic ...

As work on the canal progressed, however, the Isthmian Canal Commission improved facilities and provided incentives for workers to stay. This photo gallery provides a look into the everyday life ...

Upon his return to Washington, Roosevelt described his first-hand observations to Congress and announced a restructuring of the Isthmian Canal Commission that would prove crucial to the management ...

The United States spent almost $500 million (roughly equivalent to $15.2 billion in 2023) to finish the Panama Canal project.

The time is rapidly approaching when the nation, through its representatives, will be called upon to decide where the great Isthmian Canal shall be built. The President's commission has done its ...