Hawaiiana Research

Hawaii Newspaper Guide

• Chronicling America

Find full-text articles from historic Hawai'i and U.S. newspapers, between 1836-1922
Use the "Advanced Search" tab and limit to Hawaii

• Star Advertiser Online

Full text access to the Honolulu Advertiser, 1999 to current. Login with your Hawaii State Public Library card number

Mrs Keogh's video on how to search Hawaii Newspapers through the public library

• Civil Beat 

  Search by subject

• Ka Wai Ola -news since 1980, covering the people, issues and events important to the Native Hawaiian community. 

Environment and Land

History & Government

• Scholar Space - social science research on the people and institutions of Hawai`i

• Hawaiian Journal of History - scholarly journal devoted to original articles on the history of Hawai‘i, Polynesia, and the Pacific area. Full text is available for recent journal issues in Academic Search Complete through Hawaii Public Library

  • Index to Hawaiian Journal of History

• Hawaii Stories of Change - Kokua Hawaii Oral History Project - When several poor minority communities in Hawaii faced  evictions in the 1970s, groups of volunteer organizers and their associates were willing to stand between the tenants and the bulldozers. Interviews with Kokua Hawaii organizers, community leaders and associates who helped to successfully resist the evictions and contributed to the beginnings of the Hawaiian Renaissance 

• Center for Oral History - preserves and highlights the recollections of Native Hawaiians and the multi-ethnic people of Hawaiʻi. It produces oral histories and interpretive historical materials about lifeways, key historic events, social movements and Hawaiʻi’s role in the globalizing world, for the widest possible use. 

• Unspoken Memories: Oral Histories of Hawaii Internees at Jerome, Arkansas

Culture

Music, Hula, Surfing

• Scholar Space - social science research on the people and institutions of Hawai`i. 

• Hawaiian Legends Index

• Hawaiian Music  Resource Guide - You will need to search for the books at the Public Library

• Hawaiian Mythology  - You will need to search for the books at the  Public Library

• Hula - You will need to search for the books at the  Public Library

• Surfing in Ancient Hawaii - ebook

• Hawaiian Surfing- ebook

 Food

Hawaii Foods Publications - articles about the history of Hawaiian foods

Center for Oral History has conducted dozens of oral history projects, focusing on Hawaiʻi' 

Examples of searches:

• FOOD mentioned in the description of the interview or as a topic keyword

• HEALTH mentioned in the description of the interview or as a topic keyword

Food Values of Breadfruit, Taro, Coconut and Sugar Cane

The Influence of Foods and Food Habits upon the Stature and Teeth of the Ancient Hawaiians 

Medicine

Guide to selected plants of the Māla Lāʻau Lapaʻau [9 p. PDF] 

Hawaiian Healing Plant Theme (UH)

Hawaiian Medicinal Plant books - You will need to look for the books at the Hawaii Public Library

Traditional Health Beliefs: Native Hawaiian Values