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Panama Canal

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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]

List of funding grants [2]


Source URL: http://www.neh.gov/explore/panama-canal

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