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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Hawaiian Journal of History.daily12026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 49 (2014) through current issueLatest Articles: Hawaiian Journal of HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Hawaiian Journal of History2169-76390440-5145Latest articles in Hawaiian Journal of History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®He Mo‘olelo Hō‘ike: Curators in Conflict at Hawai‘i’s Bishop Museum
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946409
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, May 19, 1897. A headline reads: “Not Courteous Treatment of Ladies at Bishop Museum. An Open Protest to the Trustees of the Kamehameha Schools.”1 It was a public letter written by Emma Nakuina, a Hawaiian woman of chiefly status, describing the events of the previous day. In it she identified William Brigham, the museum’s Director and Curator, as the cause of this ill treatment. “It may be a matter of very little moment to you, Messrs. Trustees,” Nakuina writes, “that a few Kanaka women should be so rudely insulted, but it is not the first action of the sort by the individual occupying the sinecure of the Kamehameha curatorship.”It is easy to generalize about history. When
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallHe Mo‘olelo Hō‘ike: Curators in Conflict at Hawai‘i’s Bishop Museum2024-12-11text/htmlen-USHe Mo‘olelo Hō‘ike: Curators in Conflict at Hawai‘i’s Bishop Museum2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®787392026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11The European Suitors of Queen Emma
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946410
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“I do therefore offer Your Majesty my hand, as your Majesty has already obtained my heart.”Although Dowager Queen Emma took her trip to Europe in 1865 and 1866 partly to take her mind off the deaths of her husband and son, two marriage proposals she received there most assuredly were reminders of her profound loss. The requests for her hand appear in her letters and diary entries written during her trip. That the records of the marriage proposals survive at all indicate that the proposals at least flattered Queen Emma sufficiently to secure their preservation. The letters also demonstrate the grace and kindness with which Queen Emma rejected the entreaties of her suitors.The first marriage solicitation resulted
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallThe European Suitors of Queen Emma2024-12-11text/htmlen-USThe European Suitors of Queen Emma2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®598142026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i by Joy Schulz (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946419
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The latest monograph in the University of Nebraska Press’ Studies in Pacific Worlds series is the second by Joy Schulz. The first, Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific, launched the series in 2017. In this most recent work, the author attempts to tell the story of four female rulers, two in Tahiti and two in Hawai‘i, whose lineages imbued them with the authority to govern but who also had to maneuver the increasingly predatory waters of foreign aggression and its imposing western patriarchy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.The first two chapters recount the histories of Tahitian leaders Purea (c. 1720–1778), who was the ruler of her region when
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallWhen Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i by Joy Schulz (review)2024-12-11text/htmlen-USWhen Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i by Joy Schulz (review)2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®84552026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11He Leta Mai Iapana Mai: A Native Hawaiian Hansen’s Disease Patient Leaving for Japan in the Late Nineteenth Century
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946412
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This paper sheds light on one aspect of border crossing by Native Hawaiians in the late nineteenth century. The Bayonet Constitution had stripped Hawaiian royalty of much of their power in 1887, and Hawai‘i’s public health policy had stripped Hansen’s disease patients of much of their mobility since 1865.2 One of the turning points in the history of Hawai‘i’s public health policy was “An Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy,” which was issued in 1865 and effectively criminalized what is now known as Hansen’s disease, enabling the government to forcibly sequester people diagnosed with the disease.3 Yet, for some reason, David Keaweamahi, a Native Hawaiian pastor, was exempted from this policy and allowed to leave
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallHe Leta Mai Iapana Mai: A Native Hawaiian Hansen’s Disease Patient Leaving for Japan in the Late Nineteenth Century2024-12-11text/htmlen-USHe Leta Mai Iapana Mai: A Native Hawaiian Hansen’s Disease Patient Leaving for Japan in the Late Nineteenth Century2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®834472026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11Kumukanawai ame na rula o ka Ahahui Kaahumanu
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946413
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Cover image, Kumukanawai ame na rula o ka Ahahui Kaahumanu. Private collection.The typescript of this document is intended to engage our readers but also to offer searchable access to researchers. At The Hawaiian Journal of History, we receive submissions with historical narratives crafted from within many scholarly disciplines and methodologies but also from communities and authors without formal academic training. We publish the best of what we receive, utilizing the peer review process to determine the value of these submissions, for the membership of Hawaiian Historical Society but also for future researchers in many communities and disciplines, particularly for those whose access will be determined by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallKumukanawai ame na rula o ka Ahahui Kaahumanu2024-12-11text/htmlen-USKumukanawai ame na rula o ka Ahahui Kaahumanu2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®565652026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11Connecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790–1840 by Peter R. Mills (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946414
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Peter Mills has written an important and exhaustively-researched new book on a neglected topic in Hawaiian history, the acquisition and use of Western-style ships by Hawaiian chiefs during the period 1790 to 1840. His book is part of an important theoretical shift toward “‘Ōiwi optics” (focusing on indigenous action) in the writing of Hawaiian history, championed by recent Native Hawaiian scholars such as Kamana Beamer and Noelani Arista, that seeks to describe Hawaiians as agents in their relations with Westerners, not simply victims. Mills argues against what he calls the “standard conclusion” that the chiefs’ purchase of Western ships was merely the most expensive part of a wasteful competition for status
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallConnecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790–1840 by Peter R. Mills (review)2024-12-11text/htmlen-USConnecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790–1840 by Peter R. Mills (review)2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®83602026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11Ke Kumu Aupuni: The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood by Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakau (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946415
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Awaiaulu, the publisher and team of translators responsible for this important volume, is at the forefront of bringing to light one of the largest archives in a Pasifika language. The over 2 million pages of extant Hawaiian language material from the 19th and 20th centuries remains an understudied and inaccessible resource for the many Kānaka Hawai‘i (and others) who are not conversant in ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i. Awaiaulu makes this material accessible by training translators who publish material such as this volume (and much more on their web-site). According to the Awaiaulu website, their mission is “dedicated to develop resources and resource people that can bridge Hawaiian knowledge from the past to the present and the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallKe Kumu Aupuni: The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood by Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakau (review)2024-12-11text/htmlen-USKe Kumu Aupuni: The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood by Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakau (review)2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®85142026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea by Cynthia G. Franklin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946416
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In her book, Cynthia Franklin considers life narratives that resist and redefine the often hegemonic, racialized, colonial, and heteropatriarchal idea of the human. Who gets to define the human and how determines life-altering outcomes; incarceration, dispossession, or death. Born out of contemporary crises and protest movements such as Black Lives Matter (BLM), the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and the Native Hawaiian movement to protect Mauna Kea, each of the texts not only push the normative boundaries of, but also reimagine new ways to describe and define the human. Simultaneously, Franklin maps out the linkages between the movements, uncovering the connected logics driving dehumanization.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallNarrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea by Cynthia G. Franklin (review)2024-12-11text/htmlen-USNarrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea by Cynthia G. Franklin (review)2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®114032026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11Beneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana: The Japanese American Internment Experience at Camp Livingston by Hayley Johnson and Sarah Simms (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946417
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Beneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana: The Japanese American Internment Experience at Camp Livingston centers on the little-known experiences of Japanese inmates incarcerated at Camp Livingston, Louisiana, during World War II. This silence was not only partly due to the inmates’ reluctance to talk about their experiences—a sentiment shared by residents of other camps—but also because the Army closed the camp at the end of the war, and it faded into historical obscurity, even within Louisiana. In this noteworthy study, librarians Hayley Johnson and Sarah Simms meticulously construct the lives of inmates of Camp Livingston, focusing on the lives and experiences of the Reverend Buntetsu Miyamoto of Hawai‘i
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallBeneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana: The Japanese American Internment Experience at Camp Livingston by Hayley Johnson and Sarah Simms (review)2024-12-11text/htmlen-USBeneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana: The Japanese American Internment Experience at Camp Livingston by Hayley Johnson and Sarah Simms (review)2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®64442026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai‘i by Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946418
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I knew before even opening this book that it would be the most extensive qualitative work ever written about Hawai‘i’s Latino or Latinx population. Indeed, Rudy Guevarra Jr.’s Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai‘i does not disappoint but exceeds all expectations. Guevarra craftily weaves together a multiplicity of themes such as Hawaiian histories, Latinx presences, race and ethnicity, cultural identity, diaporas, labor relations and immigration issues, together with notions of U.S. imperialism, expanding capitalism and settler colonialism, to reveal for the reader the meaning of the Latina/o experience in Hawai‘i, past and present. The book brings out a plethora of little-known information and, at the same time
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallAloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai‘i by Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. (review)2024-12-11text/htmlen-USAloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai‘i by Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. (review)2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®127682026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire by Alvita Akiboh (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/946420
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In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh presents a detailed study of the Americanization of United States colonies gained through the 1898 Spanish-American War through the introduction, control, use, and re-use of symbols and iconography on the everyday objects of money, postage stamps, and flags. A continual reminder of official symbols of sovereignty, these tangible everyday objects were used by the colonial power—in this case the United States—to assert authority. Conversely, Akiboh also shows how these symbols are used by Indigenous people to contest colonial power and assert self-determination. The geographic areas surveyed in this publication include American Samoa, Guåhan (Guam), Hawai‘i, the Philippines, Puerto
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/676/image/coversmallImperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire by Alvita Akiboh (review)2024-12-11text/htmlen-USImperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire by Alvita Akiboh (review)2024-12-112024TWOProject MUSE®77642026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002024-12-11