The program addresses the history of food supply in the U.S. and the Erie Canal's importance to the midwestern grain industry ...

Over the last 200 years, only one thing has been aboard every vessel that’s crossed the Erie Canal – a story. One vessel seen pulling into Fairport earlier this month has picked up a number of them.

Great Canal Journeys Season 1 is a documentary show that stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales, who have a mutual love for canals. They set out on a journey to different canals located all over ...

The Erie Canal opened Oct. 26, 1825 and proved one of the most successful public works projects in American history, reshaping large swaths of the national economy.

ALONG THE GREAT CANAL; SCENES AND INCIDENTS OF A TRIP THROUGH NICARAGUA. GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ANGLERS -- FRESH-WATER SHARKS -- CITIES OF THE REPUBLIC -- A RECEPTION BY THE PRESIDENT.

How the Erie Canal helped Underground Railroad freedom seekers escape into upstate NY and Canada. Explore the Erie Canal's role as a corridor of resistance for anti-slavery activism, the Second ...

The Norfolk District’s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that the Great Dismal Swamp Canal will be temporarily closed.

The Panama Canal connected the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean in 1914 but that’s not the whole story. In the U.S., it is most often thought of as a feat of engineering that demonstrated American ...

‘American control’ over Panama Canal would be ‘great for the security of the whole Northern Hemisphere’, says Capt. James Staples Capt. James Staples discusses Trump’s idea to ...

In the first of a three-part series exploring rail’s history and development alongside rival transport modes, Christian ...

Cristina Henríquez's engaging "The Great Divide" uses the power of fiction to further imagine the lives of those who built and lived near the canal.