The Canal's strategic importance is undisputed. It allows for the rapid deployment of the U.S. Navy from one ocean to another, drastically reducing travel time and bolstering America's ability to ...

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 ...

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

The Erie Canal, America’s 19th century engineering marvel, and the promise of a new nation The Erie Canal, one of the earliest transcendent tales of the American experience and an endeavor first ...

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 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.

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 ...