LibGuides: Primary Sources: Central, Latin, South America & The Caribbean: Panama

Online Sources: Panama

Operation Just Cause - Oral History Interviews (U.S. Army)
Panama & Panama Canal Primary Sources
Panama (George Bush, Dec. 20, 1989)
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"Presents a speech by U.S. President George W. Bush, delivered in Washington, D.C. on December 20, 1989. Goals of the U.S. in sending military forces to Panama; Threats and attacks of Panama General Manuel Noriega against U.S. citizens in Panama; Actions taken by Bush in response to the attacks to U.S. citizens in Panama."
Transcript of President's Statement at White House on the Crisis in Panama
World Digital Library: Panama
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Items in the World Digital Library related to Panama. Mostly images and maps.

Book Sources: Panama

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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Documentos historicos relativos a la fundacion de la Republica de Panama by Rodolfo Aguilera
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Publication Date: 1904
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, overland by Demas Barnes
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
a series of letters by Demas Barnes, describing a trip from New York to San Francisco, thence home, by Acapulco, and the Isthmus of Panama.
Ho for California! by Sandra L. Myres (Editor)
Call Number: F593 .H6 1980/ebook
ISBN: 0873281039
See - The Isthmus of Panama, 1849: A diary kept by Mrs. Jane McDougal.
Original Papers Relating to the Expedition to Panama by Edward Vernon
Call Number: Online - ECCO
Publication Date: 1744
"Consists of the dispatches of Admiral Edward Vernon, with a number signed by Vernon and Sir Chaloner Ogle. Text is continuous despite pagination. With an errata slip."
Presidents from Reagan through Clinton, 1981-2001 by Lane Crothers and Nancy S. Lind
Call Number: E176.1 .P922 2002
ISBN: 031331411X
Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents
United States Discovers Panama by Michael LaRosa; Germán R. Mejía (Editor)
ISBN: 0742527212
: The Writings of Soldiers, Scholars, Scientists, and Scoundrels, 1850-1905
When New Flowers Bloomed by Enrique J. Levi (Editor)
Call Number: PQ7488 .W44 1991
ISBN: 0935480471
: Short Stories by Women Writers from Costa Rica and Panama
A Year of American Travel by Jessie Benton Frémont
Call Number: Online - free - LOC
narrative of personal experience, voyage to California in 1848, impressions of Panama, San Francisco, Monterey, San Jose, &c., and a letter from Colonel John Fremont, describing his expedition to the Rocky Mountains made during the winter of 1848-49

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