History of Hawaii
Here in History of Hawaii, we welcome you to our quite peculiar story. Which in terms of a written record, really didn’t begin until the arrival of England’s Great Navigator. Captain James Cook was on his third voyage of exploration into the Pacific when, on his way north from Tahiti to find the Northwest Passage, he bumped into these islands. His first voyage, which had ventured into the South Pacific in search of the Great Southern Continent, had found nothing of that sort. His second voyage had taken him to Tahiti for his astronomers to observe the transit of the planet Mercury across the face of the sun. On the fateful day, it rained. This third voyage didn’t turn out much better. Having discovered Hawai’i, Cook stayed just long enough to make himself persona non grata with the Hawaiians, and for his trouble, they ate him (sort of). Things only got crazier from there.
ʻAʻohe uʻi hele wale o Kohala. – No youth of Kohala goes empty-handed. (Said in praise of people who do not go anywhere without a gift or a helping hand.)
digital rarities
David Malo • Hawaiian Antiquities (Moolelo Hawai’i)
Abraham Fornander • An Account of the Polynesian Race, Vol. I
Abraham Fornander • An Account of the Polynesia Race, Vol. II (1880)
Abraham Fornander • Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore (1916)
Archibald Menzies • Hawaii Nei 128 Years Ago (1920)
W. D. Westervelt • Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (1916)
James Jackson Jarves • History of the Hawaiian Islands (1872)
Sereno Edwards Bishop • Reminiscences of Old Hawaii
Ralph S. Kuykendall • The Hawaiian Kingdom, Vol. 1. Foundation and Transformation, 1778-1854
Ralph S. Kuykendall • The Hawaiian Kingdom, Vol. 2: Twenty Critical Years, 1854-1874
Ralph S. Kuykendall • The Hawaiian Kingdom, Vol. 3: The Kalakaua Dynasty
R. Chang, W. Patterson • The Koreans in Hawaii, 1903-2003
Dennis Ogawa, Glen Grant: Kodomo No Tami Ni: For the Sake of the Children: The Japanese Experience in Hawai’i
Kodama-Nishimoto, Nishimoto, Oshiro • Hanahana: An Oral History of Hawaii’s Working People
R. Takaki • Pau Hana: Plantation Life in Hawaii, 1835-1920
Roy Alameida • Stories of Old Hawaii
Davianna Pomaikai McGregor • Na Kua ‘Aina (Living Hawaiian Culture)
Marshall Sahlins • Islands of History
Mary Kawena Pukui • Polynesian Family System in Ka’u, Hawai’i
O.A. Bushnell: Molokai
Visit our History Titles section for lots of great books on Hawaiian history!
P.S. If you have a taste for history, we invite you to our companion site WisdomMaps.info. It’s history as you’ve never seen it!