The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed attempts, deadly tropical diseases, and engineering challenges turned this ...

In 1905, a breach in the Alamo Canal caused massive flooding that created California’s Salton Sea, submerging towns and damaging infrastructure. Join us as we explore the remains of the canal ...

“Akron at 200: A Bicentennial History” offers an in-depth account on subjects that haven’t been covered or covered thoroughly in previous history publications.

The Old Mentz Heritage Center is presenting “Clinton’s Ditch,” a play about the canal's origins, Friday and Saturday at the Samuel Center for Canal History in Port Byron.

The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decades long series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and all-out wars.

New art on Canal Street featuring Scrim and his four-legged friend Tiffany sipping a Waterbury’s nectar soda is part of the Windows on Canal art project. It is the work of the Canal Street ...

A CMA CGM boxship has become the first large vessel to pass through the Suez Canal in 15 months, according to Ossama Rabiee, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA).

Cotham reminds readers that the history of Juneteenth involves ordinary actions of many individual people whose names may not be widely known. Collectively, these books about Juneteenth offer fresh ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?