Hawaiian History Links

Links and References to Important Historical Information, images and Documents

From Perplexity:

A highly recommended online source for a Native Hawaiian perspective on the history of Hawaiʻi is Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library. This digital library provides access to an extensive collection of Native Hawaiian reference materials, including Hawaiian-language newspapers, books, and cultural resources. It is designed to support the teaching and revitalization of the Hawaiian language while offering a broader understanding of Hawaiʻi's history and culture from an indigenous viewpoint

Key Features of Ulukau:

• Hawaiian Language Newspapers: Nearly 125,000 pages of digitized newspapers, which serve as primary sources for Native Hawaiian perspectives on historical events2.

• Books and Cultural Texts: Includes significant works such as The Kumulipo (creation chant) and other foundational texts8.

• Educational Tools: Resources for learning Hawaiian language and exploring cultural practices5.

Additionally, the Hawaiian Historical Society provides online references and archives that delve into Hawaiʻi's history with a focus on indigenous narratives13. Both platforms are excellent for accessing authentic perspectives on Hawaiian history.

Online Digital Resources

Bishop Museum - Online Data
Provides information about its departments, including a staff directory, a campus map and links to its library and archives.

Blount Reports
The pertinent portion of the Report made to the 1894 US House by Blount titled Affairs in Hawaiʻi which is the basic source document for the Hawaiʻi sovereignty movement. It assesses conditions in Hawaiʻi after the Hawaiian Republic was forcibly taken over by the Committee of Safety.

Bob Krauss Research Index
In 2006 the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library's Hawaiian Collection received the private research index created by the late Bob Krauss, longtime columnist for the Honolulu Advertiser and commentator on cultural, social, historical, and political developments in Hawaiʻi. His wide-ranging knowledge of Hawaiʻi was phenomenal, and his research resulted in hundreds of columns and numerous books of history, biography, travel, and social commentary.

Hawaiʻi Nisei Story
This Kapi‘olani Community College/Asia-Pacific Digital Library site focuses on the experiences of Hawaiʻi’s Americans of Japanese ancestry, from the early decades of the 20th century, through World War II and the postwar era up to the present.

Hawaiʻi State Library
The Hawaiʻi and Pacific Section provides in-depth reference and readers' advisory services to a worldwide audience using a wide variety of resources: books, pamphlets, government documents, periodicals, maps, microforms, and electronic databases.

Hawaiʻi War Records (UH Manoa)
The Hawaiʻi War Records Depository (HWRD) holds approximately 1,000 photos from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and 330 photos from the Honolulu Advertiser, representing primary material from the two English-language Honolulu newspapers.

Hawaiian Historical Society
The Hawaiian Historical Society, founded in 1892, is dedicated to preserving historical materials relating to Hawaiʻi and the Pacific region and publishing scholarly research. The Hawaiian Journal of History is published annually.

Hawaiian Volcano House Registers
"The Volcano House Registers is a collection of hotel guest registers from the historic Volcano House in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. The digitized registers span 57 years, from 1865-1922. The guests of the Volcano House signed the registers and included detailed illustrations, anecdotes from their visits, calling cards, poems, and comics."

Honolulu Record
In 1948, Koji Ariyoshi, a social activist, published a labor-focused newspaper called the Honolulu Record. Founded on social change, Ariyoshiʻs goal was to present an alternate view on local and world issues, especially those affecting the working class people of Hawaii.

Hui Malama I Na Kupuna ‘O Hawaiʻi Nei
This Native Hawaiian organization is dedicated to the proper treatment of ancestral Native Hawaiians. Its site includes information regarding traditional interment and re-interment and Federal, State, and County laws, including the status of current cases.

Internet Archive
Search for your topic and find materials that have been digitized and are available for download.

Ka Huli Ao Digital Archives
Established at the William S. Richardson Law School in 2005, this Archives focuses the preservation of valuable historical, legal, traditional and customary materials. In collaboration with the Hawaiʻi State Archives, the collection includes approximately 300,000 images of historic documents ranging from the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi's original Constitution to the journals of the proceedings of the House of Nobles.

Kumu Pono Associates
Kepā and Onaona Maly comprise Kumu Pono, an independent consulting firm which has over 30 years experience in conducting detailed historical archival studies, indexing and translating Hawaiian language accounts from historic Hawaiian newspapers, journals, and land records, conducting detailed oral history studies, writing cultural assessment studies, site preservation and cultural resource management plans, and contributing to the development of integrated resource management plans.

Library of Congress - Chronicling America
Chronicling America provides access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Mahele Book (Hawaiʻi State Archives)
The māhele, or division of lands between Kamehameha III, the chiefs, and the konohiki was a single transaction that commenced on Jan. 28, 1848, and ended on Mar. 7, 1848. It is recorded in the Buke Kakau Paa no ka mahele aina i Hooholoia i waena o Kamehameha III a me Na Lii a me na Konohiki ana, commonly referred to as the Māhele Book.

Papakilo Database
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs continues to assemble a database of varied collections of data pertaining to historically and culturally significant places, events and documents in Hawaiʻi's history. Mandatory login is no longer required but login is still necessary for specific features such as adding notes to documents.

Polynesian Voyaging Society
PVS was founded in 1973 to research the means by which Polynesian seafarers discovered and settled nearly every inhabitable island in the Pacific before European explorers found the ocean in the 16th century. This site provides information about the history and traditions of canoe voyaging.

Save Our Surf (UH Manoa)
Save Our Surf (SOS) digital collection consists of unpublished material from the SOS organization: an environmental, social, political, and cultural movement that contributed to the contemporary Hawaiian sovereignty movement.

Survey of Hawaiʻi Historical Records Institutions (PDF )
Commissioned by the Hawaiʻi State Historical Records Advisory Board, it provides an analysis of the archival collections in Hawaiʻi, i.e. access and holdings formats. The Directory includes collection description with hyperlinks.

Thrum's Hawaiian Almanac and Annual
The Hawaiian Almanac, now commonly known as "Thrum's," was published annually between 1875 and 1974. In addition to statistical reports on business, population, government, weather and geography, each volume included directories of government, businesses and organizations, and articles and essays on a wide variety of topics.

UH Mānoa Hawaiian Collections, Databases and Indexes
Databases and Indexes for UH Mānoa's Hawaiian and Special Collections including Hawaiʻi newspapers and journals, Hawaiian music and others.

Images

·       The Atlantic magazine has a Photo  site that has many categories, including History  and World War II .-

·       The Commons  from flickr, with a goal of sharing "hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives."
Note: The Commons has a separate search box in the middle of the page - if you use the search box at the top of the page, you'll be searching all of flickr.

·       Getty Images has an Archival Photos  site that is a "global archival offering of defining cultural moments, places and iconic personalities - from the historical to the present-day."

·       Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection Japanese Diaspora Initiative  from Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University: "The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection is currently the world’s largest online archive of open-access, full image Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers in Asia and South America."

·       The Library of Congress has an online Prints & Photographs  collection.

·       The New York Public Library Digital Collections  is a "living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more."

·       Queen Liliuokalani Photograph Exhibition  - 120 images from Hawai'i State Archives

·       The Smithsonian Institution  has 9.3 million digital records available online.

1.        History Websites and Imagesmillions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.” National

2.        Primary SourcesCollections from Duke University Libraries is “Digitized historic photographs, advertisements, texts & more from Dukes unique library

3.        Online Resourcesin different regions. Bishop Museum Ethnology Database provides photographs and information for items from Hawaii and the

4.        Reference Works & Other Booksit also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Pharmacy Library Pharmacy Library is another

5.        EntomologyState University Department of Entomology. This site provides photographs and guide pages for different species. Finding Free

Further Resources

Learn more

For a Native Hawaiian perspective on the history of Hawaiʻi, a strong online source is the Papakilo Database maintained by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). Papakilo is a "database of databases" that compiles various historically and culturally significant collections of primary and secondary sources. 

Other valuable online resources include:

Ulukau:

This website offers a wealth of online resources, including books, articles, and digitized primary sources from Hawaiʻi. 

UH Mānoa Library:

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa provides research guides and online resources on Hawaiian culture and history. 

Kamehameha Schools:

The Kaʻiwakīloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center offers a rich exploration of Hawaiian culture and history, and Kumukahi explores living Hawaiian culture and its connections to the past. 

The Hawaiian Historical Society:

This organization preserves historical materials and publishes scholarly research on Hawaiian history, according to LibGuides. 

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA):

OHA offers a variety of resources, including the Kipuka Database, Native Hawaiian Data Book, and Kamakakoʻi. 

Library of Congress:

The Library of Congress (.gov) has resources on Hawaiian history and culture, including primary sources. 

Hawaiian Journal of History:

This scholarly journal, available online, features original articles on the history of Hawaiʻi, Polynesia, and the Pacific area, according to Kapiolani Community College Library.