For missionaries, education was essential to both salvation and worldliness. Prominent Congregationalist ministers, such as Timothy Dwight and Edward Dorr...
Queen Ka‘ahumanu was the favorite wife of Kamehameha I, who united the Hawaiian Islands....
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission (ABCFM), founded in 1810, arose from the religious fervor that America experienced...
Preparations in Honolulu to welcome the arrival of Liholiho included extended practice for a large hula performance with 270 dancers...
From 1790 – 1830, a Protestant revival called the Second Great Awakening swept across America. The movement was a reaction...
The work of spreading Christianity got an unexpected boost when Rev. William Ellis landed in Hawai‘i in the spring of...
Keōpūolani, mother of Liholiho and Kaiukeaouli, born with the kapu moe, was the highest ranking ali‘i, though she was instrumental...
Faced with declining revenues for its global missions, ABCFM founded the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, in 1816 as...
On October 23, 1819, the Pioneer Company of fourteen Protestant missionaries, five of their children and four Hawaiian men sailed...