In a column titled “The troubled history of the Panama Canal’s ... dearth of scholarship on the subject. The best book on the Panama Canal Zone I have found is a now-out-of-print memoir ...

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As Panamanian historian Marixa Lasso described in her book “Erased,” the canal was not built ... an assistant professor of ...

To do a deeper dive into the waterway’s history and role in the world, tourists can also head to The Canal Museum in Casco Viejo, Panama City’s old town. Famous for the museum, coffee shops ...

In a column titled “The troubled history of the Panama Canal’s racial and social divide,” Dvorak explains how the legacy of the U.S.-built shipping route “includes segregation and violence.” ...