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Un hombre, un plan, un canal, ¡Panamá! Antes de 1914, viajar desde la costa este hasta la costa oeste significaba cruzar por tierra todo Estados Unidos. Hacerlo por mar implicaba un largo viaje hacia el sur, rodeando Sudamérica y luego subiendo por la costa del Pacífico. Pero entonces, en...

Immerse yourself in the vivid world of the Panama Canals construction through the eyes of Harry A. Franck, an American travel writer who spent three months as a census-taker and police officer in the Canal Zone. This captivating series of vignettes offers rich detail and authentic dialect, bringing to life the experiences of those who worked on this monumental project. Please note that some racial terms and attitudes reflected in this work may be considered objectionable today. - Summary by TriciaG

"Panama Canal's Troubled Bet on Its Future" is from the June 22, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Walt Bogdanich, Jacqueline Williams and Ana Graciela Méndez and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Con la misión de conectar la historia y la actualidad del Canal de Panamá con nuevas audiencias, el Canal de Panamá presenta el podcast "Así pasó". Las voces que conducen esta conversación son de Orlando Acosta, colaborador del Canal y estudioso de la historia, y de José Alejandro Rodríguez, joven activista por la educación e impulsor del movimiento “Dame un Chance”, mejor conocido como @QueXopaJackson. La historia de 500 años de comunicación interoceánica ofrece conexiones increíbles que producen un asombro positivo.

In The Silver Women, Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the Panama Canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans.

Renowned leadership consultant, Samuel R. Chand details the account of the construction of the Panama Canal, and draws parallels between it and successful leadership methodology. "More passion isn't the answer, and bigger dreams aren't always the solution. Every leader is asking two questions...