For most of history, Niagara Falls prevented them from spreading any further. That changed in the early 1900s, with improvements to the Welland Canal, which bypasses Niagara Falls to create a ...

The Great Lakes have been brutally compromised over the years, by overfishing and industrial pollution for example, and more recently by the outbreak of toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie. Perhaps the ...

Sollas's modest 26,000,000 years for earth history is reduced to 86,666 or ... vertical cut Ready to begin the voyage through the Welland Canal. The stern section of the “North Wind,” afloat ...

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...

The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor and the New York State Canal Corporation recently announced the release of new educational materials geared for fourth graders learning about the Erie ...

The collaborative exhibition spotlights year-long photographic exploration by the 2024 Erie Canal Artist-in-Residence cohort.

In a column titled “The troubled history of the Panama Canal’s racial and social divide,” Dvorak explains how the legacy of the U.S.-built shipping route “includes segregation and violence.” ...

Jeanne Gostling will present a program on the Erie Canal immigrants at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Oneida County History ...

Organizers said this is all just the beginning as the nation as a whole prepares to honor America's 250th birthday.

But such speculation fails to account for the potential political boost that Trump might get from talking tough on the Panama Canal. History indicates that it could be a good issue to unite the ...