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Panama
Central America as a whole | For younger readers | Panama | Panama Canal
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Central America as a whole
Arnold, Caroline. City of the Gods. Clarion, 1994. A photographic journey through the ancient Aztec city of Teotihuacán; for younger readers.
Booth, John A., and Thomas W. Walker. Understanding Central America. Westview, 1993, 1999. A thorough guide to the political and social complexities of the region.
Bunson, Stephen M., and Margaret E. Bunson. Encyclopedia of Ancient Mesoamerica. Facts on File, 1996. Guide to the people, places, and history of the region.
Dominguez, Jorge I., and Marc Lindenberg, eds. Democratic Transitions in Central America. University Press of Florida, 1997. A study of the transition from civil war to democracy as experienced in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
Drew, David. The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings. University of California Press, 2000. This study provides new evidence on the ruin of the Maya empire.
Reddish, Paul. Spirits of the Jaguar: The Natural History and Ancient Civilizations of the Caribbean and Central America. BBC/Parkwest, 1997. An illustrated companion to the popular BBC-PBS television series on the natural history of the region.
Sieder, Rachel, ed. Central America: Fragile Transition. St. Martin's, 1996. Explores the nature of democratic transition following the abatement of civil wars in the region.
Wallace, David Rains. The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America. Sierra Club, 1997. The biological and geological evolution of the land bridge between the Americas.
Weaver, Frederick Stirton. Inside the Volcano: The History and Political Economy of Central America. Westview, 1994. Central America's colonial past and its effect on current political and social structures.
For younger readers
Hassig, Susan M. Panama. Marshall Cavendish, 1996. For readers in grades 4 to 7.
Pascoe, Elaine. Into Wild Panama. Blackbirch, 2004. Focuses on animal life; for readers in grades 3 to 6.
Winkelman, Barbara G. The Panama Canal. Children's Press, 1999. For readers in grades 4 to 7.
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Panama
Biesanz, John, and Mavis Biesanz. The People of Panama. Columbia University Press, 1955. 
Buckley, Kevin. Panama: The Whole Story. Simon & Schuster, 1991. Describes events leading up to the U.S. invasion in the late 1980s.
Conniff, Michael L. Panama and the United States: The Forced Alliance. University of Georgia Press, 1992. Survey of relations between Panama and the United States from the early 19th century to Manuel Noriega.
Conniff, Michael. Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904-1981. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. 
Diez Castillo, Luis A. Los cimarrones y los negros antillanos en Panamá. Impr. J. Mercado Rudas, 1981. 
Friar, William. Portrait of the Panama Canal: From Construction to the Twenty-First Century. Graphic Arts Center, 1999. A lively collection of historical and contemporary photographs.
Lindop, Edmund. Panama and the United States: Divided by the Canal. Twenty-First Century, 1997. Historical overview of the importance of the canal to the United States and the Panamanians' desire for sovereignty; for middle school to adult readers.
Major, John. Prize Possession: The United States and the Panama Canal, 1903-1979. Cambridge University Press, 1993. U.S. involvement in Panama from President Theodore Roosevelt to President Jimmy Carter.
Newton, Velma. The Silver Men: West Indian Labour Migration to Panama, 1850-1914. Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1984. 
Westerman, George W. Los inmigrantes antillanos en Panamá. Impresora de la Nación, 1980. 
Panama Canal
Gold, Susan Dudley. The Panama Canal Transfer: Controversy at the Crossroads. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1999. An introduction to the canal's development and ultimate surrender to Panamanian control in 1999. For middle-school readers.
Israel, Fred L., ed. Building the Panama Canal. Chelsea House, 1999. Based on four National Geographic articles published between 1904 and 1914. For high school readers.
LaFeber, Walter. The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective. Oxford, 1990. Survey of U.S. diplomatic, legal, political, economic, and military involvement with the canal.
Major, John. Prize Possession: The United States and the Panama Canal, 1903-1979. Cambridge University Press, 1993. A comprehensive history of U.S. policy, from Teddy Roosevelt to Jimmy Carter.
McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914. Simon & Schuster, 1978. Comprehensive history of the building of the canal.
McNeese, Tim. The Panama Canal. Gale, 1997. Considered, in its time, the Eighth Wonder of the World. For younger readers.
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