On October 10, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson pressed a telegraph key in Washington, D.C., sending an electrical signal across more than 2,000 miles that detonated dynamite charges deep in the jungles of Panama. The explosion tore through the Gamboa Dike, the last barrier separating…
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On August 15, 1914, the world witnessed a monumental achievement in engineering and global trade with the official opening of the Panama Canal. The first vessel to navigate this vital new passage was the SS Ancon, a cargo ship that would forever be remembered…
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On November 18, 1903, the United States secured sweeping control over a ten-mile-wide corridor in Panama, completing an agreement that cleared the way for construction of an interoceanic canal and placed the strategic waterway under near-total American authority. The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, signed in Washington…
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