Hawaii History

...Samuel Elbert and Mary Kawena Pukui give credit to Lyons for helping save the Hawaiian language....

... On August 21, 1959, Hawaii officially entered the Union as the 50th U.S. state when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the proclamation admitting the islands ....

... the forces of segregation and racism in Congress effectively derailed statehood for more than a decade ....

... Opponents of Statehood were landed aristocracy fearful of being ruled by their employees ....

...Gallup first polled Americans on their support for Hawaii's statehood in 1940....

"He is our first born, in America he entered the church of Jesus, he is the one who came with the first teachers."

August 6 and 9 have been made into International Days of Anti-American historical revisionism.  So here is a look at reality as seen from first-hand sources instead of whining activists.

... over the last fifty years, our lawmakers have tended to regard those provisions as bothersome annoyances, to be worked around or avoided ...

... a foundation builder of the Hawaiian church ....

... The 146-year-old vessel has been docked at Honolulu Harbor since 2008 ....

... New Evidence from the Ke Kumu Hawaii Newspaper ....

...When the USSR collapsed in 1991, long-secret archives of the Communist International were thrown open to western researchers for the first time.  Many previously unknown details of communist history have been revealed--including the 1935 Comintern orders directing Communists to begin work in Hawaii....

In 1840 the Kingdom of Hawaii adopted a constitution with strong parallels to the Constitution of the United States....

...the structure and style of the Declaration follows a form familiar to most modern lawyers: a complaint initiating a lawsuit....

... No other states have a specific law establishing birthright citizenship there ....

Hawaii was the last place in the US to abolish indentured servitude....

... Ultimately, visitor arrivals would rise consecutively for nine straight years from 2010 through 2019 ....

... Before 2009, Hawaii had no statute of limitations on the collection of taxes ....

... commemoration events honoring the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II from August 30 – September 2 ....

... Ohio Senator confronts Hawaii governor over COVID lockdowns, says “tell me about the science behind why you locked your residents up” ....

... reflecting on a person I got to know over my years of participation in the political world of Hawai‘i ....

... On April 25, the Department of Education issued a letter clarifying that Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, and American Indian communities are not considered part of DEI or CRT categories ....

If you ask how "a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary" squares with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, let us explain ....

... The American Flag was raised for the first time above the islands of American Samoa on April 17, 1900 ....

...the homestead associations he championed in his first decade of service were multi-ethnic groups seeking the fee-simple ownership of land promised in the Hawaii Organic Act....

...On March 19, 1959, Congress approved Hawaii for admission to the union as the 50th state....

... Following outcry, Army republishes web article on 442nd Regimental Combat Team ....

... Hawaii authorities are reportedly deciding to not extradite Castro from Utah, according to a spokesperson for the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office ....

... An anthropologist testified at the copyright infringement trial about the similarities between "Moana" and "Bucky" that aren't found in traditional Polynesian stories ....

... What was happening at the Maui County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) while Lahaina Burned? ....

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... A young girl, whose remains were discovered in a Waikiki apartment in 2014, has been identified as Mary Sue Fink, born April 29, 1959 ....

... trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) were sworn in by Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins ....

... people trying to culturally appropriate customs to justify their inconsiderate and dangerous behaviors with leaders having to be “sensitive” when discussing it ....

As presented by Hoku Paoa Stevenson at the Summer Palace....

“It was (his) work as head of the HPD’s Espionage Bureau that lay the foundation for Burns’ later political success in Hawaii.”  

... Nancy Anderson's murder — which was Hawaii's oldest cold case — is the focus of the Dec. 2 episode of 'People Magazine Investigates' on ID ....

... a comprehensive, and somewhat intense guide ....

“...There isn’t a lot of built environment left. So, the main thing that we’re talking about, is how can we move projects forward quickly while doing our due diligence to keep an eye out for any archaeology, or more importantly, iwi (human remains) that may be revealed during the construction process...”

... Now that the rail has opened, what are the top three indicators that proved you were right? ....

... Sam King debates Williamson Chang and Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu ....

... There are five island burial councils ....

...the report focuses on the 'rekindling' of the morning fire as the cause of the afternoon fire which destroyed Lahaina and killed 102 people....

... Did you know that Tokyo even relied on a North-Shore-home-owning Nazi spy to launder money and send signals ....

... Let the people who have lost their properties and are bravely committed to rebuilding do just that — and enable them to do it quickly ....

On August 12, 1898, the United States and Spain reached a cease-fire agreement in its brief conflict over Cuba and the Philippines....

At the Marquesas Islands, Herman Melville and his friend jumped ship....

“yet another attempt at serial litigation by the Hee enterprises”

... Earlier this year, an FBI agent from the Honolulu Field Office contacted police investigators with the names of some people who could potentially be identified as “Unknown Male #1.” ....

... Over the past decade, HDOT has focused on the removal of inoperable vessels from its commercial ports ....