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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to... (more)

The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin History of American Life)

The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin History of American Life)

by Julie Greene

A groundbreaking history of the Panama Canal offers a revelatory workers-eye view of the momentous undertaking and shows how it launched the American century The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and technology. In The Canal Builders , Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis obscures a far more remarkable element of the canal’s construction—the tens of thousands of... (more)

The Darkest Jungle

The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas

by Todd Balf

“Commit yourself to the Virgin Mary, for in her hands is the way into the Darién—and in God’s is the way out.” The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America’s first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darién, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world’s most courageous adventurers in the nineteenth century. With rival warships and explorers from... (more)

A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His ChildrenTheodore Roosevelt

A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

by Theodore Roosevelt

The Panama Canal,

by Frederic J Haskin

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies.... (more)

First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power

First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power

by Warren Zimmermann

“We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the United States became an imperial nation within five short years a century ago (1898-1903), exploding onto the international scene with the conquest of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, and... (more)

Acapulco to San JuanMifflin Thomas

Acapulco to San Juan

by Mifflin Thomas

Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-- the Building of the Panama Canal

Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-- the Building of the Panama Canal

by Matthew Parker

A thrilling tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in human history. It literally required moving mountains, breaking the back of the great range that connects North and South America. Begun by the French in 1880, its successful completion in 1914 by the Americans marked the end of the Victorian Age and the beginning of the “American Century.” ... (more)

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The Path Between the Seas

The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

by David G. McCullough