Books

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Mills reveals a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by...

This is a beautifully-crafted and illustrated book on Hawaiian women's fashions. It chronicles the history of Hawai'i and fashions worn by the firs...

The story of Kaluaikoolau (or Koolau) is one of Kauai's great legends. In 1892, after learning that he and his young son had contracted leprosy, Ko...

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

Ka Baibala Hemolele. The Holy Bible. A side-by-side English and Hawaiian of the Bible used by the missionaries with the early Hawaiians. This editi...

They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawaii was conceived in 2000 to provide a comprehensive written treatment of the African Americ...

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...

Hawai'i's Best Spooky Tales 5 includes 34 new stories by 28 authors who describe events they can't explain - hauntings and curses, eerie encounters...

The remains of Kaniakapupu–King Kamehameha III’s summer residence–bear no traces of the feast that once served ten thousand of his subjects gathere...

[In this] definitive book... [written] in a manner beautifully analogous to her subject, [Moriarty] intertwines multiple strands of narrative, from...

"...a local bestseller...(the authors) describe a pervasive way of conducting private and public affairs in which state and local office holders th...

The colorful history of the Hawaiian Islands, since their discovery in 1778 by the great British navigator Captain James Cook, falls naturally into...

The colorful history of the Hawaiian Islands, since their discovery in 1778 by the great British navigator Captain James Cook, falls naturally into...

Within 10 years, Opukaha’ia went from being an orphaned isolated, disheartened, Hawaiian speaking, idol worshipper at Kealakekua to becoming a worl...

This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from...

Facing the Spears of Change takes a close look at the extraordinary life of John Papa `Ī`ī. Over the years, `Ī`ī faced many personal and political ...

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...

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

(From the book jacket) At the end of the 1800s, when Oberlin graduate Ida May Pope accepted a teaching job at Kawaiaha‘o Seminary, a boarding schoo...

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

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

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...