Column: Building the Panama Canal was a great achievement – as was its transfer
After returning from his travels to Central and South America, Bob Waite reflects on the history of the Panama Canal.
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After returning from his travels to Central and South America, Bob Waite reflects on the history of the Panama Canal.
Column: A well-founded pessimism about our future Will Lange. Copyright (c) Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Modified: 5/19/2021 9:35:47 AM Years ago I had a fishing buddy who was also a history professor. We usually cast our flies from opposite ends of a large aluminum scow; and when fishing was slow, we just trolled around the pond and talked. I learned more during those sessions about the details of building the Panama Canal than I ever gleaned from David McCullough’s excellent book The Path Between the Seas, and...
The U.S. Capitol Is ‘a Building Like No Other in the Land’: David McCullough David McCullough © Provided by The Daily Beast Win McNamee/Getty , from which it is reprinted here. So here we are in the Capitol of the United States of America on Capitol Hill, the acropolis of our nation. It is a building like no other in the land, wherein the highest aspirations of a free and open society have been written into law, generation after generation, where, time and again, brave and eloquent words have changed history, and where the best and some of the worst of human motivations...