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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

This Hawaiian language text, intended for self-learning as well as classroom use, presents the principal conversational and grammatical patterns of...

Queen Liliuokalani, the eighth monarch of the Hawaiian Islands, is known and honored throughout the world, even though she was never ceremonially c...

The life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798–1865) is a remarkable story of a Black woman’s journey from slavery to emancipation, from antebellum New Jers...

The Long Journeys Home: The Repatriations of Henry ‘Opukaha‘ia and Albert Afraid of Hawk (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books) Hard...

From the Foreword―“Crucially, past, present, and future are tightly woven in ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) theory and practice. We adapt to whatever hist...

“This Treasury offers a wealth of information for everybody…. [It] proves that a surprising number of Hawaiian words from our receding past still h...