Keōpūolani, mother of Liholiho and Kaiukeaouli, born with the kapu moe, was the highest ranking ali‘i, though she was instrumental...
View the interactive map of the islands of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui and Hawai‘i to see key Ali‘i and mission members...
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 first page of print in Hawaiian was struck on the printing press, transported from Boston on the Thaddeus, and...
Kauikeaouli was the son of Kamehameha I and his sacred wife, Keōpūolani....
By the mid-1830s, Hawai‘i had endured a series of escalating foreign conflicts....
For Hawaiians, the natural environment was imbued with religious significance. Geological features, plants and animals were often revered as kinolau,...
A grand feast was held to commemorate the death of Kamehameha and the missionaries were invited to participate....
William Richards arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1823 with the second company of missionaries....
During the 1840s, the Hawaiian government continued to reorganize, establishing departments and administrative structures....