Books

Few people today know that in the nineteenth century, Hawai‘i was not only an internationally recognized independent nation but played a crucial ro...

More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives...

More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives...

There is no place like Hawai'i at Christmas!  Island-style Christmastime joy, community events, music , flavors, and lights parade through the page...

Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestr...

From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill by C. Allen Jones and Robert V. Osgood focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawa...

For many years, Hawaiian Dictionary has been the definitive and authoritative work on the Hawaiian language. Now this indispensable reference volum...

Queen Lili‘uokalani, born as Lydia Lili‘u Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamaka‘eha, was the last reigning monarch of the kingdom of Hawai‘i. She ascended t...

This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from...

Discover the origins of printing in Hawai'i with Ka Pa'i Palapala. Featuring the original manuscript from 1822 written by A. Grove Day and Albertin...

Thomas A. Woods, ed., Kōkua Aku, Kōkua Mai: Chiefs, Missionaries, and Five Transformationsof the Hawaiian Kingdom (Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Child...

Discover the rich history of Mission Houses Museum with our comprehensive guidebook. Perfect for complementing our guided tours and educational pro...

In a compact and portable format, this dictionary contains more than ten thousand entries, a welcome chapter on grammar explained in non-technical ...

David W. Forbes, Ralph Thomas Kam, Thomas A. Woods, Partners in Change: A Biographical Encyclopedia of American Protestant Missionaries in Hawaiʻi ...

This book is intended as a general introduction to the ethnobotany of the Hawaiians and as such it presumes, on the part of the reader, little back...

This book by W. Arthur Whistler is about the useful plants of the Pacific islanders, with special emphasis on plants used by Polynesians. A total o...

Preparing the Way A Pictorial History for the Hawai’i Mission Bicentennial 1820-2020 Featuring Images of Events Held in New England in 2019 Christo...

Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign examines the American, international, and Hawaiian representations of ...

\When author Gail Okawa was in high school in Honolulu, a neighbor mentioned that her maternal grandfather had been imprisoned in a World War II co...

‘With this remarkable book, Kealani Cook dramatically expands our understanding of the Native Hawaiian and Oceanic past and speaks powerfully to th...

Merging scholarly research and biographical narrative, She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton reveals the true life of a freed and highly educated slave...

Gavan Daws’ remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based on years of work in the documentary sources, Shoal...