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Hawai'i History Day is part of a rich ecosystem of Hawaiʻi museums, archives, cultural centers, libraries, and other community organizations, all dedicated to mālama our history, mālama each other. Here is a sampling of some of these valuable centers across our islands. See a research resource missing? Let us know – we're always looking to improve! Green markers indicate participating Hawaiʻi History Day schools in the
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Awaiaulu
Awaiaulu is dedicated to developing resources and resource people that can bridge Hawaiian knowledge from the past to the present and the future. |
Bamboo Ridge Oral History Project
A collection of memories and interviews with the community who helped create Bamboo Ridge Press, Hawaiʻi's oldest independent literary press. Insight into an important time in our local literary history. |
Bishop Museum
Wth a legacy spanning over 130 years, the museum showcases over 25 million artifacts that narrate the rich history and cultures of the Pacific. Today, Bishop Museum is the largest museum in the state and the premier natural and cultural history institution in the Pacific. |
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts United States Province Archives Online Collections
The mission of the archive is to collect, preserve, and share the history of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts United States Province. It is known most for its collections related to the Kalaupapa community. |
Filipino Digital Archives and History Center
Carefully curated resources by researcher Clement Bautista, including books, newspapers, photographs, oral histories, and even service records. |
Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection
The Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection (HCPC) comprises the papers of Hawaiʻiʻs members of Congress from statehood in 1959 to the present. The subjects best documented by our Hawaiʻi congressional collections include agriculture, maritime issues, natural resources, labor, civil rights issues, the military, U.S. policy in Asia and the Pacific, healthcare and education, land, and federal recognition. |
Hawaiʻi Kāhuli Project
This site contains extensive stories related to the amazing, endemic kāhuli (snails) of Hawai’i and educational resources including an Educatorʻs Guide, art activities, slide presentations, and discussion prompts. |
Hawaiʻi State Archives
The mission of the Digital Archives project is to develop a digital archives repository capable of providing reliable, long-term access to trustworthy digital records to the public and government entities of the State of Hawaiʻi, now and in the future. |
Hawaiʻi State Public Library System
Our State library system contains: 2,991,000+ Books 113,000+ CDs 165,000+ DVDs 100+ Newspapers 150+ Magazines |
The Hawaiian Mission Houses Digital Collections
Digitized archival collection from the Hawaiian Mission Houses. The Hawaiian Mission Houses library and historical archive holds over 80,000 digital pieces and is home to one of the largest collections of Hawaiian language printed material in the world. |
Hikaʻalani
Moʻolelo, historical research, and essays on Kailua, Oʻahu. The URL takes you to a treasure of essays on mele about Kailua, written by kumu Kīhei de Silva. |
Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation
A statewide non-profit organization, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation encourages the preservation of historic buildings, sites and communities relating to the history of Hawai‘i. |
Honoka'a Story Map
A Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation Story Map with Cultural Surveys Hawaiʻi, UH Hilo & Partners. We invite all to join us in this journey through the history of Honokaʻa and its surroundings. |
Honokaʻa Heritage Center
The mission of the Honokaʻa Heritage Center is to preserve, promote, and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Honokaʻa, Hawaiʻi through educational opportunities, engaging exhibits, and community events. |
Honouliuli National Historic Site
Honouliuli National Historic Site preserves the history of the largest and longest-used confinement site during World War II. Run by the U.S. army, the internment camp held approximately 400 internees and 4,000 prisoners of war. |
huiMAU
Moʻolelo, mele, ʻōlelo noʻeau, photos, and historical documents honoring Hāmākua and Umi-a-liloa |
Hula Preservation Society
Founded in 2000, the non-profit Hula Preservation Society is committed to preserving and sharing the life stories, knowledge, insights, and historical materials of our esteemed elders via digital technologies, and making that treasury available to the Hawaiian people, hula practitioners, and students and teachers across the globe. |
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi, Tokioka Heritage Resource Center
The Resource Center provides public access to a repository of resources that help fulfill the JCCH’s mission to educate present and future generations in the evolving Japanese American experience in Hawai‘i. |
Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center
Ka Ipu Makani's mission is to foster an awareness of cultural and natural resource management and heritage preservation in Hawai'i, by encouraging community stewardship, practice, preservation, and restoration of cultural and historical sites, landscapes, and materials while promoting cultural and natural richness, diversity, arts, languages, sciences, history, and traditions of Molokai. |
Kaua'i Museum
The mission of the Kaua'i Museum is to preserve and celebrate the rich heritage of Kaua'i and its people through engaging exhibits, educational programs, and community outreach. The Museum strives to foster cultural understanding, inspire curiosity, and promote the importance of preserving the island's unique history for future generations. |
The King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center
The King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center exists to interpret and inform the public about the judicial process and Hawaiʻi’s legal history. It promotes civic education and engagement by preserving and interpreting the history of Hawaiʻi through the lens of law, public policy, and the courts. |
Kohala Oral History Project
The Kohala Oral History Project engages community, illuminates history, and promotes the notion that every person makes history. The project features a collection of oral history videos as a living history of Kohala, through the lens of the people who grew up and live here. Many videos were created by youth historians and filmmakers. |
Kona Historical Society
The Kona Historical Society preserves the history of Kona to enrich, inspire, and inform our community and visitors. The Society does this through collecting, preserving, researching, interpreting, and disseminating the history of Kona. The archive consists of collections of historical photographs, unpublished diaries, journals, letters, family records and memorabilia, land documents, and selected Kona newspapers and articles |
Lahaina Restoration Foundation
The mission of Lahaina Restoration Foundation is to be stewards and storytellers of Lahaina’s Historic & Cultural Heritage. The Foundation envisions a community that engages in preserving and protecting Lahaina’s Hawaiian & Historic Sense of Place. |
Lānaʻi Culture and Heritage Center
Lāna‘i Culture & Heritage Center protects an ever-expanding collection of more than 40,000 items that share the island’s story, and commem traditions, culture, history and art of Lāna‘i’s people and places. They include objects and artifacts, as well as a digitized selection of land records, newspapers, cemetery logs and plantation employment cards. |
Lei Pua ʻAla Queer Histories of Hawaiʻi Project
An online collection of stories, photographs, and primary source materials commemorating gender and sexual diversity in Hawaiʻi. |
Lyman Museum and Mission House
Based in Hilo, The mission of Lyman Museum and Mission House is to tell the story of Hawaiʻi, its islands, and its people. |
Maui Historical Society
Maui Historical Society is committed to preserving and sharing Maui’s History with the local community and those abroad. |
Moaʻe Molokaʻi Digital Repository
The mission of the Moaʻe Molokaʻi Digital Repository is to digitally preserve and promote access to archival materials that lend to the understanding and appreciation of Molokaʻi’s rich history and culture. |
Mokupāpapa Discovery Center
In 2003, the Mokupāpapa Discovery Center (MDC) was established to interpret the natural science, culture and history of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and surrounding marine environment. |
Moloka'i History Project
Molokai History Project is dedicated to preserving and showcasing the rich cultural heritage of the island, telling the stories of Molokai and its people, ensuring that their history is celebrated and shared with future generations. |
Pacific Tsunami Museum
The goals of the Museum are to promote public tsunami education and to preserve history. |
Palama Settlement Archives
Palama Settlement Archives are where history, community, and impact have come together since 1896. The archives, both online and in person, feature extensive collections of photographs and programs showcasing activities of daily life in the Kalihi-Pālama community. |
Papakilo Database
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ (OHA’s) Papakilo Database, is the ongoing development of a cutting edge and comprehensive “Database of Databases” consisting of varied collections of data pertaining to historically and culturally significant places, events, and documents in Hawai'i’s history. |
Pili Productions
Pili Productions is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1997 and based in Hilo, Island of Hawai‘i. Pili Productions sponsors projects which describe local and Native Hawaiian culture through writing, film, or other media. |
The Filipino-American Historical Society of Hawai‘i (FAHSOH)
The Filipino-American Historical Society of Hawai‘i (FAHSOH) normally coordinates several activities promoting Filipino American history throughout the year, as well as commemorating Hawaii's official recognition of Filipino American History Month (FAHM) in October. |
The Sugar Museum
Based on the island of Maui, the mission of The Sugar Museum is to preserve and present the history and heritage of the sugar industry and the multiethnic plantation life which it engendered. |
Ulukau
The purpose of Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library, is to make these resources available for the use, teaching, and revitalization of the Hawaiian language and for a broader and deeper understanding of Hawaiʻi. |
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Brigham Young University–Hawaii University Archives
BYUH University Archives was established in 1956 to preserve the history of the institution and promote fair and balanced historical research; supports, embraces, and engages members of diverse groups and identities; and respects the legacy of the records creators. |
Center for Oral History
COH collects, documents, preserves, and highlights the recollections of Native Hawaiians and the multi-ethnic people of Hawaiʻi. |
EVols
Like ScholarSpace, eVols is an open-access, digital institutional repository for the University of Hawaii community and researchers around the world. eVols provides a home for material which the Library or the University digitizes as part of grant projects and digital library program initiatives. |
The Edwin H. Mookini Library
The Edwin H. Mookini Library is located on the UH Hilo Campus and provides resources and services to both UH Hilo and Hawaiʻi Community College. It is part of the University of Hawaiʻi System and shares some resources with other UH Libraries. |
ScholarSpace - UH Mānoa
An open-access, digital institutional repository for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa community. Includes dissertations, books, conference proceedings, and more. |
UH Mānoa Hawaiian Pacific Collection
This particular URL takes you to Hawaiʻi and Pacific research guides, carefully curated by the UHM Hawaiian and Pacific Collection librarians |
UH Maui College Library
Every college library has specially curated research guides, on all sorts of topics. The URL here goes to one example of a guide by Shavonn Matsuda on fresh water and land rights in Hawaiʻi. |
University of Hawaiʻi East-West Center
The East-West Center promotes better relations and understanding among the people and nations of the United States, Asia, and the Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue. |
University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahu Center for Labor Education & Research
The Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR) is now a part of the University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu. The Hawai‘i Center for Labor provides labor education, research and labor-related programs to workers, their organizations, university students, and the general public. |
UluʻUlu The Henry Ku'ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawai'i
‘Ulu‘ulu aims to perpetuate and share the rich moving image heritage of Hawai‘i through the preservation of film and videotape related to the history and culture of Native Hawaiians and the people of Hawai‘i. |
Asean Digital Library
The ASEAN Digital Library is a regional project to aggregate and connect the digitised resources of National Libraries in the ASEAN region. National Libraries from the various countries in ASEAN hold a great wealth of library resources that span the spectrum of formats – books, papers and manuscripts, maps, photographs, paintings and drawings, audio and video recordings, ephemera, and newspapers. |
The Avalon Project
The Avalon Project, part of Yale Law School's Lillian Goldman Law Library collects digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. |
Digital Public Library of America
52,801,703 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States |
EDSITEment
EDSITEment is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities, offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials in the subject areas of history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture. |
Family Search
A database of family records. Includes military records from WWI, WWII, U.S. Civil War, etc. |
Google Scholar
A search engine for scholarly literature, including books, articles, and other documents |
Internet SourceBook Project
Designed and maintained by Paul Halsall, the Internet History Sourcebooks Project is one of the most visited pedagogical sites in the world |
JSTOR
As part of the nonprofit ITHAKA, JSTOR’s mission is to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world. JSTOR partners with libraries, museums, and publishers to reduce costs, extend access, and preserve scholarship for the future. |
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. |
National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever. |
Project MUSE
Project MUSE promotes the publication and discovery of essential, current humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged in 1995 from a partnership between Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves. |
Retro Report
This free news library contains short videos on a variety of engaging historical topics. Sort by area of interest or decade to find the right video to get you started. |
U.S. Census Bureau
The Census Bureau is the federal government’s largest statistical agency. It is dedicated to providing current facts and figures about America’s people and economy. The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy. |
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Hawaiʻi History Day is a program of the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities, an independent non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)3 corporation. Established in 1973, our mission is to enrich lives, broaden perspectives, and strengthen communities through the public humanities.
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