The Hay–Bunau-Varila treaty gave Americans the land to build the waterway and established the Panama Canal Zone, a 5-mile strip of land surrounding the canal on either side.

The Panama Canal Zone is President Donald Trump’s kind of place. For thousands of Americans who were born or raised there during the decades when it was a tropical outpost of U.S. power ...

Donald Trump attacked with a flawed history over Panama Canal Zone control comments.

Handing control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. over to the Central American country was one of President Jimmy Carter's most controversial, and most overshadowed, foreign policy achievements.

(CNN) — Chinese antitrust regulators are investigating a US consortium’s deal for two ports in the Panama Canal zone, delaying the deal’s closing that was originally set for next week.

Handing control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. over to the Central American country was one of President Jimmy Carter's most controversial, and most overshadowed, foreign policy achievements.

On a sunny day last week, a group of American teen-agers marched up and raised a U.S. flag over their high school at Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. It seemed an everyday thing to do. But in the ...

The Panama Canal has a complicated history, although we found no evidence of it being under China's control as Trump also claimed.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Map of Canal Zone, Panama, 1968-1972.