With the arrival of foreigners, Hawai‘i’s economy expanded beyond traditional systems....
David Malo was a Hawaiian scholar and royal adviser, who is perhaps best remembered today for his book, Hawaiian Antiquities,...
For Hawaiians, land was not something to be bought and sold but a living ancestor....
Though sometimes criticized for being a product of Western ideas, the Declaration of Rights and Constitution transformed Hawai‘i....
William Richards arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1823 with the second company of missionaries....
From the first arrival of foreigners in Hawai‘i in 1778, Hawaiians perished from introduced diseases at an alarming rate....
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....
On July 11, 1842, Levi Chamberlain, business agent for the Mission, bundled four of his children and two others into...