The sources listed here may overlap with other geographic areas, but mainly cover the countries of Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
The University of Kansas's collection of broadsides (large single-sided printings) from Guatemala and Central America. Many pertain to national and local politics and include election materials, political manifestos, and government pronouncements.
The collection consists largely of reports of U.S. millitary attachés assigned to Central America and relate to conditions in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua from 1918 to 1941.
This site features a searchable translation and analysis of four codices (screenfold books) painted by Maya scribes before the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. The codices contain information about Maya beliefs and rituals, as well as everyday activities, all framed within an astronomical and calendrical context.
Focuses on U.S. policy during El Salvador’s civil war, highlighting key human rights cases investigated by the UN Truth Commission. Records span four U.S. presidencies and cover military aid, peace negotiations, and U.S. responses to abuses by Salvadoran security forces. The documents underscore the complexity of Cold War-era interventions.
This file includes State Department, FBI, and El Salvadoran government memoranda, correspondence, specimen analyses, photographs of weapons, field reports, newspaper clippings, witness statements, and polygraph examination reports. In addition, there are requests for information by the victims' families to both the U.S. and El Salvadoran governments.
Covers U.S. policy toward El Salvador during its civil conflict, including efforts to stabilize the region while addressing human rights concerns. Topics include military aid, the assassination of Archbishop Romero, agrarian reforms, and guerrilla activity. Documents highlight U.S. challenges in balancing strategic and moral considerations.
Documents U.S. involvement in Guatemala during decades of political violence, beginning with the 1954 CIA-led coup. Topics include counterinsurgency efforts, human rights abuses, and diplomatic relations. The collection provides insights into U.S. support for Guatemala’s military regime amidst a brutal civil war and genocide.
Spanning more than four hundred years, The Guatemala Collection concentrates primarily on the national era, particularly 1824-1948. [full date range: 1587-1991]. NOTE: Issues with Chrome have been reported with this resource. Users are encouraged to use other browsers.
The vast majority of the documents—correspondence, annual reports, statistics, letters, litigation—found within The Guatemala Collection are copies from the Archivo General de Centroamérica and the Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano “Francisco de Paula García Peláez” (formerly known as Archivo Eclesiástico de Guatemala) in Guatemala City.
Call Number: F1466.7 .G81 1999 Main (Gardner) Stacks
The Accord of Oslo, signed as part of the Peace Process in 1994, provided for the establishment of the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission (CEH), charged with investigating and elucidating the human rights violations and violence connected with the armed confrontation and recommending measures to promote peace and national harmony. This is the report of the Commission.
Focuses on U.S. policy during Nicaragua’s revolution and the Sandinista government. Topics include U.S. support for the Contras, CIA covert operations, and the political impact of the Iran-Contra affair. Documents trace U.S. efforts to influence Nicaragua’s political landscape during this contentious period.
Includes over 4,200 primary documents in an open-access, interpretive digital archive focusing on the period of the nationalist rebellion against U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua.