The Thaddeus anchored outside Honolulu harbor and sent a delegation to meet with Francisco de Paula Marin, a Spanish Catholic...
William Richards arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1823 with the second company of missionaries....
After a month of teaching chiefs, men, women and children on a day-to-day basis, the missionary wives determined to organize...
On October 23, 1819, the fourteen men and women of the first company to Hawai‘i boarded the brig Thaddeus, anchored...
A graduate of Bowdoin College and Bangor Seminary, Dole was a classical scholar who arrived with his wife, Emily, in...
Liholiho, as Kamehameha II, is remembered for dismantling the kapu system and permitting the missionaries to stay in Hawai‘i....
On July 11, 1842, Levi Chamberlain, business agent for the Mission, bundled four of his children and two others into...
Kauikeaouli was the son of Kamehameha I and his sacred wife, Keōpūolani....
Around 1,000 years ago, navigators from the Marquesas Islands launched an unprecedented voyage of discovery across the Pacific Ocean. Steering...
Queen Ka‘ahumanu was the favorite wife of Kamehameha I, who united the Hawaiian Islands....
For Hawaiians, land was not something to be bought and sold but a living ancestor....