Images of Old Hawaiʻi

Coral doesn’t grow in freshwater.

“A Hawaiian by the name of Frank Grouard is living as a scout in the American Army under General Crook, fighting Sioux Indians.”

On September 9, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted a new name for what had been called the “United Colonies.”

On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, an American naval base in Honolulu.

Hawai‘i is an exceptional case in American labor history because of its workforce made up of mostly non-white and immigrant workers.

Hahai nō ka ua i ka ululāʻau The Rain Follows the Forest “Not enough rain and not enough water in the streams are great evils”.

In 1774, the British Parliament passed a series of laws collectively known as the Intolerable Acts, with the intent to suppress unrest in colonial Boston by closing the port and placing it under martial law.

“Ten minutes to eight.

The 1781 U.S. victory at the Battle of Yorktown made peace talks where British negotiators were willing to consider U.S. independence a possibility.

“Very near to (the site of Queen’s Hospital,) on Sept. 2, 1838, I was born.