Queen Ka‘ahumanu was the favorite wife of Kamehameha I, who united the Hawaiian Islands....
On October 23, 1819, the fourteen men and women of the first company to Hawai‘i boarded the brig Thaddeus, anchored...
In 1827, a small group of Catholics from France arrived in Honolulu to establish a mission....
Anchored in Kailua Bay, the passengers of the Thaddeus waited for permission to disembark, entertaining visits on board and making...
During the 1840s, the Hawaiian government continued to reorganize, establishing departments and administrative structures....
The work of spreading Christianity got an unexpected boost when Rev. William Ellis landed in Hawai‘i in the spring of...
On October 23, 1819, the Pioneer Company of fourteen Protestant missionaries, five of their children and four Hawaiian men sailed...
From the first arrival of foreigners in Hawai‘i in 1778, Hawaiians perished from introduced diseases at an alarming rate....
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...