Reflections on the Erie Canal is available to stream on pbs.org ... There was no civil engineering school in America at the time. - There was West Point, there was Norwich Academy, but those ...

One of America’s great early engineering achievements, the Erie Canal was completed in 1825 and ensured New York City’s place as the economic capital of the country. Here are 14 facts you ...

"The Erie Canal ensured the status of New York City as America's premier seaport, commercial center, and gateway to the interior — eclipsing New Orleans, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore ...

REUTERS But he’s not kidding when it comes to Greenland and the canal as part of his America-first strategy to counter China and Russia, sources said. “The president is 100% serious,” a ...

President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested the United States take over the Panama Canal, a shipping waterway that cuts across Central America, unless fees for using the canal are lowered.

The canal isn’t the only critical passageway ... hundreds of thousands of migrants make their way north from South America to the US. Mulino had promised to close the gap to northbound migrants ...

Before the canal’s completion, ships traveling between the east and west coasts of the Americas would have to sail around Cape Horn, on the southern tip of South America, adding thousands of ...

WASHINGTON — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan ... network of earthen canals in what is now ...