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

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 ...

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.

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.

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.

Ricaurte Vásquez Morales, the administrator of the Panama Canal Authority, ... In the early 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt made the completion of a passageway a priority.

To counter such worries, President Roosevelt exerted tremendous effort to make the canal project an idealistic symbol of U.S. global power. In a flamboyant trip to Panama in 1906, the first time a ...

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, ...