More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming ...

On Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal, the United States' first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and ...

The Erie Canal Bicentennial will end this year, commemorating the canal’s history of displacing communities, including the ...

Initially, the canal was just 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide, but it cut through fields and forests, cliffs and swamps, and ...

Though the movement began at the turn of the century, it flourished in the hinterlands along the Erie Canal, which became ...

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to ...

In December 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump began repeatedly calling for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States. In a Dec. 21, 2024 post on his social media platform Truth Social, ...

One of the most historic sites on Merritt Island is not a town, but a canal called the narrow strip of land "The Haulover.

One particularly harmful invasive species that used the Erie Canal to access the Hudson River is the round goby.

And tumble on through a dollhouse-sized portal into New Haven transportation history. These time-warping windows into past Elm City eras have been set up around downtown and Dixwell by the real-life ...