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Prepared by Cyd Dyer, Trinity United Presbyterian Church, Indianola, Iowa.
Cyd is College Librarian/Archivist for Dunn Library, Simpson College, also in Indianola.

History and Economy:

Montgomery, Tommie Sue
Revolution in El Salvador: Origins and Evolution
Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1982

Arnson, Cynthia
El Salvador, a Revolution Confronts the United States
Washington, D.C. : Institute for Policy Studies, 1982

Woodward, Ralph Lee
El Salvador
Santa Barbara, CA : Clio, c1988

Unheard Voices [VHS] / producer, videographer, Ray Gatchalian ; co-producer, Nancy Juliber
Oakland, CA : Distributed by the Video Project, c1990
16 min. Poignant look at the young forgotten victims of the 11-year Salvadoran civil war.

A Decade of War : El Salvador Confronts the Future / edited by
New York : Monthly Review Press, 1991

Kufeld, Adam
El Salvador / pictures; introduction by Arnoldo Ramos ; poetry by Manlio Argueta.
New York : W.W. Norton, c1990

El Salvador, a Country Study
2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Dept. of the Army : U.S. G.P.O., 1990

El Salvador : a Spring Whose Waters Never Run Dry / edited by Scott Wright.
Washington, D.C.: Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA), c1990

Murray, Kevin
Inside El Salvador
Albuquerque, N.M. : Interhemispheric Resource Center, 1995

Economic Policy for Building Peace : the Lessons of El Salvador / edited by James K. Boyce
Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1996
338.1 P14c
Paige, Jeffery M
Coffee and Power : Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997

Hutchinson, Bill
When the dogs ate candles : a time in El Salvador
Niwot, Colo : University Press of Colorado, c1998

Golden, Renny
The Hour of the Poor, the Hour of Women: Salvadoran Women
New York : Crossroad, 1991

Romero:

Brockman, James R
Romero : a Life
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, c1989
Vigil, Maria Lopez
Oscar Romero. Memories in Mosaic

Romero [VHS]
Los Angeles, CA : Vidmark Entertainment, c1989
105 min. feature film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people; starring Raul Julia.
Romero, Oscar A.|q (Oscar Arnulfo,|d1917-1980
Archbishop Oscar Romero : a Shepherd's Diary / translated by Irene B. Hodgson
Cincinnati, Ohio : St. Anthony Messenger Press: c1993

El Mozote:

972.84 B61m
Binford, Leigh
The El Mozote Massacre : Anthropology and Human Rights
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1996

972.84 D18m
Danner, Mark
The Massacre at El Mozote : a Parable of the Cold War
New York : Vintage Books, 1994

Jesuits:

Towards a Society That Serves Its People : the Intellectual Contribution of El Salvador's Murdered Jesuits / edited by John Hassett and Hugh Lacey
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1991

Doggett, Martha
Death Foretold : the Jesuit Murders in El Salvador
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1993

Peterson, Anna Lisa
Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion : Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador's Civil War
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997

A Question of Conscience: the Murder of the Jesuit Priests in El Salvador [VHS]
New York : Icarus/Tamouz/First Run Features, c1990
48 min. Focuses on the November 16, 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador by uniformed soldiers, and its consequences.

Donovan:
Roses in December [VHS]
New York, NY : First-Run Features, 1982
55 min. Examines the life of Jean Donovan, a lay missionary. In 1980 Donovan and 3 nuns were brutally murdered by Salvadoran security forces.

Fiction

Benitez, Sandra
The Weight of All Things
New York : Hyperion, c2000
Haunting tale of a young boy caught in the war-ravaged reality of El Salvador in 1980.

Martinez, Demetria
Mother Tongue
New York : One World, 1996
Mary wanders aimlessly through her own world, until she meets and falls passionately in love with Jose, a refuge from the civil war in El Salvador, who comes to the U.S. to denounce the U.S.-supported military government of his country.


 

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