Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy Roosevelt) was the 26th U.S. President, known for conservation, trust-busting, and a dynamic career ...

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

I’m writing something different. Over the weekend, by chance, I watched parts of the Roosevelts documentary on Amazon. OK, ...

Sixteen years have passed since Ferdinand De Lesseps' catastrophic failure in Panama.

Sixteen years have passed since Ferdinand De Lesseps’ catastrophic failure in Panama, and the dramatic collapse of the French Panama Canal company. Now, President Theodore Roosevelt has picked up 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 ...

And Roosevelt buttressed the Monroe Doctrine by declaring the need for the United States to build a navy and an isthmian canal in Panama that would enable our domination of the Western Hemisph ...

The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?

Public pressure to complete the canal at an early date led President Theodore Roosevelt and the Congress to reject the 1905 majority report of the Board of Consulting Engineers recommending a ...

The White House has asked the United States military to draw up plans for how it might seize the Panama Canal “by force,” a bombshell report revealed Thursday. The alleged directive comes a ...

When Colombia’s government doubted the terms, President Theodore Roosevelt adopted his Big Stick diplomacy. Fueled by its strategic interests, the US supported a revolt against Colombian rule, ...