First published in 1967, The Hawaiian Journal of History is the Hawaiian Historical Society’s annual publication, a scholarly journal devoted to original articles and research on the history of Hawai‘i and the Pacific. Each volume features a varied collection of historical topics and time periods in peer-reviewed articles and a Notes & Queries section. A selection of book reviews and a bibliography of the previous year’s published works regarding Hawai‘i’s history are provided by experts and editors dedicated to recording and synthesizing scholarly research.

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Current Issue: Volume 58 (2024)

Articles

  • He Moʻolelo Hōʻike: Curators in Conflict in Hawaiʻi’s Bishop Museum
    J. Uluwehi Hopkins
  • The European Suitors of Queen Emma
    Ralph Thomas Kam
  • He Leta Mai Iapana Mai: A Native Hawaiian Hansen’s Disease Patient Leaving for Japan in the Late Nineteenth Century,
    Toshiaki Furukawa

Notes And Queries

  • Kumukanawai ame na Rula o ka Ahahui Kaahumanu (Constitutions and By-Laws of the Ahahui Kaahamanu), Honolulu, Oʻahu, 1962, English & ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
    Blaine Namahana Tolentino 

Book Reviews

  • Connecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790-1840 Peter Mills Reviewed by Kale Langlas
  • Ke Kumu Aupuni: The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakau; Puakea Nogelmeier, translator Reviewed by Michael David Kaulana Ing
  • Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea Cynthia G. Franklin Reviewed by Amj J. Carlson
  • Beneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana: The Japanese American Internment Experience at Camp Livingston Hayley Johnson and Sarah Simms Reviewed by Kelli Y. Nakamura
  • Aloha Compadre: Latinx in Hawai‘i Rudy P. Gueverra, Jr. Reviewed by Anthony Castanha 
  • When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i  Joy Schulz Reviewed by J. Uluwehi Hopkins 
  • Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire Alvita Akiboh Reviewed by E. Tory Laitila

Bibliography

  • Hawaiʻi History 2023: A Bibliography of Titles of Historical Interest, Jodie Mattos

On the cover of Volume 58:

The front cover of this year’s Journal features Emma Kailikapuolono Metcalf at eighteen years old (c. 1885).