Timeline of historical events
1. Introduction to the seven nations of Central America
2. Early Central America
3. From united provinces to independent states : Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua
4. Panama : from Columbian province to occupied state
5. The United States and Central America
6. The Cold War I : communism and "freedom fighters"
7. Cold War II : Belize, Costa Rica, and Panama
8. Central America in the twenty-first century
Notable people in the history of Central America
Glossary of foreign language words and key concepts
Central American history : a bibliographic essay.