From the time of Captain Cook, Hawaiians saw that foreigners used writing to both formalize agreements and communicate ideas....
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...
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....
View the interactive map of the islands of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui and Hawai‘i to see key Ali‘i and mission members...
International trade brought an influx of foreigners to Hawai‘i....
On July 11, 1842, Levi Chamberlain, business agent for the Mission, bundled four of his children and two others into...
On November 1, 1820, the Honolulu Mission hosted Captain Allen of Maro, from Nantucket, the first American whaling ship to...
View the interactive map of the islands of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui and Hawai‘i to see key Ali‘i and mission members...