Books

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...

This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from...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

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

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

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...

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...

In this second volume of her unique oral history anthology of the Islands, Jane Marshall Goodsill shares the stories of those who perpetuate the tr...

Hardcover, 228 pp. Life stories from the generation that shaped the Aloha State. “Even though my father and I were close, I realized after his pass...