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 ...

"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 ...

The canal is operated by the Panama Canal Authority ... ships had to make the long journey around the stormy tip of South America in order to travel by sea between the two oceans.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...