History

It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments be recognized annually across the nation. What started as just one week in May has evolved into a monthlong tribute of events in cities big and small.

Two historic mooring quays lining Ford Island are undergoing restoration and preservation work on April 28 at Pearl Harbor on Oʻahu.

King David Kalākaua Middle School students Marliena Domer, Audrey Maderazo, and Shaylene Padron took home first place in the performance category and a ticket to the national competition in Washington, D.C. — but their trip is up in the air, because of deep cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Lawmakers rush to pass bills before the end of the legislative session; HPR hears from the winners of the Hawaiʻi History Day competition

Maxx Phillips of the Center for Biological Diversity discusses President Donald Trump's executive order allowing commercial fishing in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument; Matthew Loke, administrator of the state Agricultural Development Division, on increasing egg prices and significant price changes at the grocery store as tariffs take effect

The 62nd annual Merrie Monarch hula competition has kicked off, and it's been celebrating traditional hula and Hawaiian culture for decades. Many hālau emphasize upholding that tradition. But a growing number of hālau are mixing a bit of modern touches into their performances.

Long before Trump began using tariffs as a bargaining strategy, the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi wrestled with the question of how to use tariffs. Historian and author Ronald Williams Jr. spoke with The Conversation about the long history of tariffs in Hawaiʻi, which he says charted the path to annexation.

Lahainaluna High School on Maui is the country's oldest high school. Among its storied achievements is its boarding program that continues today as the only one of its kind in the state. The UH Mānoa Center for Oral History has collected stories from 19 Native Hawaiian students who were part of that program.

Historian Ronald Williams Jr. takes a look at the role tariffs played in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi; Researcher Richelle Moskvichev shares evidence that sea levels in Hawaiʻi are rising faster than expected

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel. The funeral following the Battle of Okinawa is one of the more unusual and little-known episodes of World War II.