The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

Immigrants have been recruited to work in the US, then later the US has deported many depending upon shifts in attitudes, economic conditions.

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

“The United States has paid for its discovery ... As the facts of our society substantiate continentalism, more people will explicitly espouse it.” ...