Theodore Roosevelt sitting in a crane at the Panama Canal. | Historical/GettyImages. In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant had established the Inter-Oceanic Canal Commission to study possible routes ...

To ensure the canal could be built, then-President Theodore Roosevelt supported Panamanian independence, and in 1903, the U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that established permanent U.S. rights to ...

S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama—When President Theodore Roosevelt formulated plans for the Panama Canal, there was no Panama.The country was still part of the Republic of Colombia despite bouts of on-again ...

President-elect Trump criticized Jimmy Carter's diplomacy that led to the Panamanians regaining control of the PCZ nearly 100 years after Teddy Roosevelt helped the U.S. take it over.

The construction of the Panama Canal began in 1904 under President Theodore Roosevelt. The waterway was built to provide a speedy way to ship goods between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The Panama Canal has taken on an unexpected significance in Trump’s ... The United States obtained the right to construct and operate the canal in 1903 under President Theodore Roosevelt, ...