Unfortunately, in your typical U.S History course, Hawai’i probably enters the narrative during a unit on imperialism, where Queen Lili’uokalani was forced into surrendering the throne and James Dole’s company established a fruit empire. Pearl Harbor was bombed and prompted U.S. entry into World War II…Pearl Harbor is in Hawai’i. Beyond these mentions, I would wager that not much of the rich history of Hawai’i seeps into a majority of American classrooms. However, Hawai'i is an American state, and its story is an American story: competing leaders, warring kingdoms, commoners preserving their way of life, and outsiders attempting to make sense of it all. In this episode of History: Beyond the Textbook, our second episode in our arc on foreign relations on the frontier, we explore Kamehameha the Great and the Unification of the Hawai’ian Islands.
Key People
Kamehameha
Kiwala’o
Keoua
Kahekili
Captain James Cook
Key Events/Concepts
Unification of Hawai'ian Islands
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