On this anniversary marking the 200th year of the missionaries’ departure from New England and arrival in Hawai‘i, we acknowledge...
From the time of Captain Cook, Hawaiians saw that foreigners used writing to both formalize agreements and communicate ideas....
William Richards arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1823 with the second company of missionaries....
View the interactive map of the islands of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui and Hawai‘i to see key Ali‘i and mission members...
The Rev. Hiram Bingham led the first company of missionaries to Hawai‘i in 1819 – 1820....
On July 11, 1842, Levi Chamberlain, business agent for the Mission, bundled four of his children and two others into...
John (Ioane) Kāneiakama Papa ‘Ī‘ī was an esteemed statesman and royal adviser, who ultimately served four consecutive monarchs, from Kamehameha...
By the mid-1830s, Hawai‘i had endured a series of escalating foreign conflicts....
Kauikeaouli was the son of Kamehameha I and his sacred wife, Keōpūolani....
For Hawaiians, land was not something to be bought and sold but a living ancestor....