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 ...

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 ...

First off, McKinley wasn’t a businessman, he was a lawyer. He did support the building of an isthmian canal—that part is true. As Robert Merry explains in his biography, William McKinley ...

In 1903, Panama was a province of the sovereign state of Colombia. Failed efforts to construct a trans-isthmian canal had left machinery and a partially dug channel waiting for completion.

Simmons’ story is held in Box 25 of the Isthmian Historical Society Collection at the Library of Congress along with 111 other first-person testimonies by canal workers. The testimonies resulted from ...

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

The testimonies resulted from a competition in 1963 for the “Best True Stories of Life and Work” during the construction of the Panama Canal. As the 50th anniversary of the Panama Canal’s completion ...

Simmons’ story is held in Box 25 of the Isthmian Historical Society Collection at the Library of Congress along with 111 other first-person testimonies by canal workers. The testimonies resulted ...

The United States spent almost $500 million (roughly equivalent to $15.2 billion in 2023) to finish the Panama Canal project. This was by far the largest American engineering project to date.