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• The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (39 volumes, published 1882-1890), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Explorations and Adventures in Honduras: Comprising Sketches of Travel in the Gold Regions of Olancho, and a Review of the History and General Resources of Central America (New York: Harper and Bros., 1857), by William V. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (39 volumes, published 1882-1890), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Annals of the Cakchiquels: The Original Text, With a Translation, Notes, and Introduction (1885), ed. by Daniel G. Brinton, contrib. by Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz Gebuta Quej (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1989), by Philip J. Williams (page images at Pitt)

• The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1989), by Philip J. Williams (page images at Pitt)

• Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), ed. by Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford (searchable page images at Pitt)

• From Madness to Hope: The 12-Year War in El Salvador: Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador (1993), by United Nations Commission on the Truth (HTML at derechos.org)

• Bloom / Blood: A Commemorative Poem in Three Parts (c1985), by Joe Napora (HTML at Light and Dust)

• Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), ed. by Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford (searchable page images at Pitt)

• An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), by Aldo Lauria-Santiago (searchable page images at Pitt)

• An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), by Aldo Lauria-Santiago (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century, 1821-1898 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes (HTML at UC Press)

• Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century, 1821-1898 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes (HTML at UC Press)

• An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), by Aldo Lauria-Santiago (searchable page images at Pitt)

• An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), by Aldo Lauria-Santiago (searchable page images at Pitt)

• An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), by Aldo Lauria-Santiago (searchable page images at Pitt)

• The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001), by Cindy Forster (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Organizing and Repression In the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, 1944 to 1996, by Paul Kobrak (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Organizing and Repression In the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, 1944 to 1996, by Paul Kobrak (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Organizing and Repression In the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, 1944 to 1996, by Paul Kobrak (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Organizing and Repression In the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, 1944 to 1996, by Paul Kobrak (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Organizing and Repression In the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, 1944 to 1996, by Paul Kobrak (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001), by Cindy Forster (searchable page images at Pitt)

• CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents, ed. by Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh (HTML and page images at gwu.edu)

• Piety, Power, and Politics: Religion and Nation Formation in Guatemala, 1821-1871 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Douglass Sullivan-González (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Piety, Power, and Politics: Religion and Nation Formation in Guatemala, 1821-1871 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Douglass Sullivan-González (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Piety, Power, and Politics: Religion and Nation Formation in Guatemala, 1821-1871 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Douglass Sullivan-González (searchable page images at Pitt)

• The Conquest and Colonization of Honduras, 1502-1550 (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #598, 1953), by Robert S. Chamberlain (page images at HathiTrust)

• The War in Nicaragua (Mobile, AL and New York: S. H. Goetzel and Co., 1860), by William Walker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of the Filibusters; To Which is Added the Life of Colonel David Crockett (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by James Jeffrey Roche (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1989), by Philip J. Williams (page images at Pitt)

• The Story of the Filibusters; To Which is Added the Life of Colonel David Crockett (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by James Jeffrey Roche (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The War in Nicaragua (Mobile, AL and New York: S. H. Goetzel and Co., 1860), by William Walker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1989), by Philip J. Williams (page images at Pitt)

• A Faustian Bargain: U.S. Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (Boulder et al.: Westview Press, c1992), by William I. Robinson (PDF at soc.ucsb.edu)

• Still Fighting: The Nicaraguan Women's Movement, 1977-2000 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), by Katherine Isbester (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the Provinces of Tierra Firme or Catilla del Oro, and of the Discovery of the South Sea and the Coasts of Peru and Nicaragua (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1865), by Pascual de Andagoya, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Seymour M. Stone, George Gibbs, W. J. Aylward, and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904-1981 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985), by Michael L. Conniff (page images at Pitt)

• The Makers of the Panama Canal, 1911, ed. by F. E. Jackson and Son, illust. by Thomas Marine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Panama Padre, by S. Moss Loveridge, ed. by John Loveridge (PDF with commentary at archive.org)

• The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darién, 1640-1750 (c2002), by Ignacio Gallup-Diaz (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darién, 1640-1750 (c2002), by Ignacio Gallup-Diaz (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942-1976 (Washington: Center of Military History, U. S. Army, 2006), by A. J. Birtle (PDF with commentary at US Army CMH)

• Culture, Human Rights, and Peace in Central America, ed. by George F. McLean, Raul Molina, and Timothy Ready (PDF at crvp.org)

• Culture, Human Rights, and Peace in Central America, ed. by George F. McLean, Raul Molina, and Timothy Ready (PDF at crvp.org)

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