The researcher can use this strategy to narrow their topic before arriving at NARA. government agencies and how they intersect with their topic. To locate relevant records in NARA’s custody, the researcher should be familiar with the missions of various U.S. When more related records are identified and declassified, they will be added to this web page. The images selected for this web page represent only a handful of the newly declassified records found in NARA’s holdings that focus on U.S.-Panamanian relations. and Panama are widely discussed in these recently declassified records. The political motivations, economic issues, and nationalistic fervor that led to the tension between the U.S. control to Panamanian jurisdiction just as older unclassified records provide insight into the beginnings of the Canal’s history. The records provide a significant insight into the transition of the Canal from U.S. military presence, a discussion of a new sea level canal, and Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal and the Canal Zone. Ford, internal political affairs, economic issues, the defense of the Canal and U.S. The declassified records consist of memorandums, correspondence, telegrams, reports and scattered photographs concerning such matters as U.S.-Panamanian Canal relations, riots and student protests, diplomatic treaties, development of foreign policy from President John F. From the declassified documents, a selection of documents were chosen from these record groups to illustrate the kind of information that can be found in our holdings. The records were reviewed and declassified. Project BackgroundĬlassified records series relating to Panama were identified, surveyed, and chosen to be declassified from Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State, and Record Group 84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State. foreign policy since the Canal was built. citizens as well as scholars in understanding the story that led to one of the biggest changes in U.S. The records that have been recently declassified focus on that pre turnover era and may assist U.S. Many historians have examined our early pre and post construction relations with Panama but not many have examined the period just prior to the Canal turnover. employees that administered and lived in the Canal Zone. Government in general, and the imperialistic image associated with U.S. turned the Canal over to Panama, Panamanian distrust of the U.S. Debate continues to swirl around issues of why the U.S. The majority of Americans may have heard of the Panama Canal but few may know the United States’ role in its construction and maintenance, let alone the part that it played in our foreign relations with Panama. To celebrate this official recognition, the National Declassification Center (NDC) of NARA focused on recently declassified records in our custody that celebrate what the American Society of Civil Engineers has named the Seventh Civil Engineering Wonder of the World, the Panama Canal. The official recognition of its completed construction was not celebrated until March 1915 at the San Francisco Exposition. Although the Canal was officially opened to shipping on August 15, 1914, few realize that the official celebration had to be postponed due to the start of World War I a few weeks later. 2015 marked the 100th anniversary of the official celebration of the completed construction of the Canal by the United States. In August 2014, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) honored the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Panama Canal by posting blogs on various records relating to Canal employees and to U.S.
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