Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Gulf of Mexico

  • Mark Hanna’s knees and the Panama Canal

    Michael EllmanChicago, Illinois, USA Aficionados of the history of the Panama Canal know that at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Nicaragua was to be the site for the “American” inter-oceanic canal. A Nicaraguan canal would be hundreds of miles closer to ports in the Gulf of Mexico…