
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and signaling America’s emergence as a global superpower. Learn about the decade of toil and hardship, political tumult, and technological advances that accompanied its construction.
Program: Panama Canal [1]
Links:
[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/panama/player/
[2] https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=TR-50066-10