PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later ...

At the height of the construction of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s—the world’s largest and most expensive engineering project up to that point—workers were excavating the equivalent of ...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, led the project ... the newspapers relegated Panama to their back pages. The greatest engineering project in the history of the world had been ...