Essays on Panama Canal

Transfer of the Panama Canal Skepticism and controversy have surrounded the Panama Canal’s recent turnover by the United States to Panama. The Panama Canal, completed in 1914, spans 51 miles across Panama from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. Considered to be the biggest civil…

The history of the Panama Canal begins in the 1880’s when the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was signed on April 19,1880. This treaty between the United States and Great Britain stated that neither country could excavate in the Colombian area. At the time prospecting for Colombian oil…

Matthew Parker’s book, Panama Fever, covers a wide range of the Panama Canal’s history that begins with the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 1500s and concludes with the United States handover of the canal to Panama in 1999. In three sections, Parker discussed the…