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The Panama Canal: Digging the American Century — Fexingo History

The Panama Canal: Digging the American Century — Fexingo History

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 In 1903, the United States backed a revolution in Panama, then rushed to build one of the greatest engineering feats in history: the Panama Canal. This episode explores how the canal was more than a shortcut between oceans—it was a tool of empire. We follow the failed French effort under Ferdinand de Lesseps, the scandal and disease that buried it, and the American takeover driven by Theodore Roosevelt. We meet Dr. William Gorgas, who conquered yellow fever and malaria by draining swamps and fumigating homes, and John Stevens, the chief engineer who abandoned sea-level plans for a lock-and-lake system that saved the project. We discuss the brutal labor conditions, the segregated pay system, and the thousands of workers who died. And we consider the long shadow: the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties that finally returned the canal to Panama, and how the waterway shaped U.S. power in Latin America for decades. From the Panamanian independence plot hatched in a New York hotel room to the first transit of the SS Ancon in 1914, this is the story of how a ditch made an empire.

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