After a month of teaching chiefs, men, women and children on a day-to-day basis, the missionary wives determined to organize...
View the interactive map of the islands of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui and Hawai‘i to see key Ali‘i and mission members...
With the arrival of foreigners, Hawai‘i’s economy expanded beyond traditional systems....
For missionaries, education was essential to both salvation and worldliness. Prominent Congregationalist ministers, such as Timothy Dwight and Edward Dorr...
Hawaiians quickly took to reading and writing but were slower to accept Christianity....
The work of spreading Christianity got an unexpected boost when Rev. William Ellis landed in Hawai‘i in the spring of...
Around 1,000 years ago, navigators from the Marquesas Islands launched an unprecedented voyage of discovery across the Pacific Ocean. Steering...
From 1790 – 1830, a Protestant revival called the Second Great Awakening swept across America. The movement was a reaction...
Samuel Ruggles and Samuel Whitney accompanied George Prince Humehume home to Kaua‘i, where he was welcomed with great emotion by...
The first page of print in Hawaiian was struck on the printing press, transported from Boston on the Thaddeus, and...
King Kamehameha I united the Hawaiian Islands at a time when foreign influences were transforming everything around him. He managed...