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The Americas. Pan-Americanism is a movement that seeks to create, encourage, and organize relationships, an association (a Union), and cooperation among the states of the Americas, through diplomatic, political, economic, and social means.
The Conferences of American States, commonly referred to as the Pan-American Conferences, were meetings of the Pan-American Union, an international organization for cooperation on trade. James G. Blaine , a United States politician, Secretary of State and presidential contender, first proposed establishment of closer ties between the United ...
At the fourth International Conference of American States (Buenos Aires, 1910), the name of the organization was changed to the Union of American Republics and the Bureau became the Pan American Union. The Pan American Union Building was constructed in 1910, on Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
Pan American Union, later the Organization of American States; Pan Am, a former international airline carrier based in the United States. Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company, a defunct oil company; Pan-American, a L&N train that ran from Cincinnati to New Orleans; SS Pan America, a steamship
The 14 April 1890 date of the founding of the secretariat, originally known as the International Bureau of American Republics, is celebrated as the "Day of the Americas" in recognition of the fact that the Bureau later became the Pan American Union and ultimately the present-day Organization of American States. [citation needed]
The Pan American Society of the United States was established in 1910 in New York City. [1] [2] for "the promotion of the sentiment of brotherhood" among the American nations, and "especially the cultivation of good fellowship" between the people of the United States and those of Central America and South America. [1]
The Pan American Union headquarters building in Washington, D.C. in 1943. Sixty-three years after the Amphictyonic Congress, a secretariat, the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, was created by eighteen Pan-American nations in 1889 at the First Pan-American Conference to promote trade in the western hemisphere. The Commercial Bureau ...
A continental union is a regional organization which facilitates pan-continental integration. [citation needed] Continental unions vary from collaborative intergovernmental organizations, to supranational politico-economic unions. Continental unions are a relatively new type of political entity in the history of human government.