Elizabeth Mann

Relates the history of how the Panama Canal was planned and built, including the political, international, and health aspects of getting the project finished on time.

Examines the building of the Great Wall of China and the thousands of years of conflict that preceded it.

Describes the building of the Colosseum in ancient Rome, and tells how it was used.

The Statue of Liberty pays homage to what is best about America, but it was the idea of two Frenchmen who lived under the harsh rule of Emperor Napoleon III. Edouard Laboulaye and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi wanted to remind their countrymen that tyranny is not inevitable, that citizens have rights which no government can take from them. It took two decades of planning, fundraising, and building for their dreams to cross the ocean and now the statue...

Describes the engineering, construction, and social and historical contexts of the Hoover Dam.

A history of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza and the civilization that produced it.

Follows the life and times of a group of men and women who set up camp in Deadwood, South Dakota, during the gold rush of 1876.