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Architecture(276 clicks)
ARQUITECTURA PANAMEÑA

Bush Announcing Noriega's Surrender(1594 clicks)
Official text

Colonial Panama(1545 clicks)
PowerPoint presentation by Robert Kackson.

Colonial Panama City(1385 clicks)

Controlling the Canal(288 clicks)
Does handing over the Panama Canal pose national security dangers to the United States? William Ratliff of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and John J. Tierney of The Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., respond to your questions.

Dino's Panama Photos(1612 clicks)
Over 1,900 photos of Panama and the formerCanal Zone.

History of Count Ferdinand de Leseps and the Panama Canal(1445 clicks)
Short biography.

How the Panama Canal Works(1497 clicks)
Great Java animation

Invasion of Panama: Operation Just Cause(2077 clicks)
Military.com provides a brief reprise of this invasion.

Lamoin Werlein-Jan, Panama since the invasion(1342 clicks)
Argues that the US invaded Panama in December, 1989 to install a pliable Panamanian government.

Let the Dirt Fly(675 clicks)
Panama Canal building

My Name is Panama(1571 clicks)
Articles about the history and culture of Panamá

Notes on the US and the Panama Canal(952 clicks)
Useful notes.

Operation Just Cause(1366 clicks)
"The files contained in this directory represent raw data compiled during the course of the operation by MAJ Robert K. Wright, Jr., the XVIII Airborne Corps Historian who deployed as the Joint Task Force SOUTH Historian, and Ms. Dolores De Mena, the Command Historian for United States Army, South. Additional information continued to be collected in the months after the conclusion of the operation by those individuals, Mr. William Stacy (Command Historian, United States Army Forces Command), and the 44th, 130th, and 320th Military History Detachments. "

Operation Just Cause, December, 1989(1518 clicks)
Photographs with captions of the war with Panama.

Panama Canal(669 clicks)

Panama Legal and Government Facts(1085 clicks)
From the Law Library of Congress

Panama's Policy Toward the U.S.: Living With Big Brother(958 clicks)
Panama's relations with the US through the US invasion of 1989.

Panama: Operation Just Cause, by XVIII Airborne Corps(1356 clicks)
In December 1989, U.S. Army forces supported by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, participated in Operation Just Cause - the invasion of Panama.

Patronato Panamá Viejo(1160 clicks)
"El Patronato Panamá Viejo es una organización sin fines de lucro, dedicada a la preservación, estudio y difusión del conjunto histórico monumental, localizado en la moderna ciudad de Panamá, República de Panamá. Desde 1995 se llevan a cabo investigaciones arqueológicas a gran escala en el sitio, proyecto interdisciplinario que involucra a distintas ramas científicas y culturales."

Photographs of Casco Viejo(1102 clicks)
By Robert H. Jackson.

Photographs of Porto Belo(964 clicks)
By Robert H. Jackson

Porto Belo, Panama Fortifications(1064 clicks)

Review of The Memoirs of Manuel Noriega: America's Prisoner(1094 clicks)
By David Becker

The Canal: Acquisition by the US(914 clicks)
Short essay.

The Great Adventure of Panama(1070 clicks)

The Great Adventure of Panama(957 clicks)
by Philippe Bunau-Varilla. Wherein Are Exposed Its Relation to the Great War and also the Luminous Traces of The German Conspiracies Against France and the United States By Philippe Bunau-Varilla. Former Chief Engineer of the French Panama Canal Company (1886-1886). First Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the Republic of Panama to Washington (1903-1904). Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City-- New York-- London, 1920

The Panama Canal(1035 clicks)
Official site

The Panama Canal: A Brief History(1122 clicks)
by Tyler Jones.

The Trans-Isthmian Canal and Its History(1290 clicks)

William Ormsbee's In Retrospect(1052 clicks)
"The In Retrospect Web site is intended to initially document, as an overview, the history of the U.S. military presence in Panama before it is rewritten (which I suspect is being attempted) or forgotton, now that the last few of some 10,000 military personnel have left Panama and the Panama Canal is under new ownership as of noon on the last day of the 20th Century."

WWW-VL HISTORY: PANAMA(987 clicks)
Extensive library of links.