Hawai'i Digital Newspaper Project

03/04/2022

On this day, March 3, 1906, a new roller-skating rink opened in Honolulu on Queen Street between Fort and Alakea streets, providing entertainment for skaters and spectators alike!

Find more fun articles from Hawaiʻi's past with Chronicling America’s free full-text, public domain newspaper archive online at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Need internet access? We've got you covered at the library!

03/29/2020

Today —28 March—in Hawaiian History [1893]: The English-language "Hawaiian Star" newspaper is launched as the official voice of the Provisional Government of Hawaiʻi by the American businessman, Joseph B. Atherton.

Atherton, called in 1903 by the N. Y. Times "the Richest and Most Influential Sugar Operator In the Islands," arrived in Honolulu from Boston in 1858, working for Castle and Cooke. He was one of the Committee of 13 that led the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy on 17 January 1893.

The Star's first editor, Dr. John Strayer McGrew, was known as the "father of annexation" for his early and constant push for the taking of Hawai'i. He arrived in the Islands from Ohio in 1866. He served as President of the Annexation Club of Hawaiʻi.

A 29 March 1893 letter of the Honolulu pastor Rev. Charles Hyde, Principal at Ke Kula Kahunapule o ka Pakipika Akau (The North Pacific Missionary Institute) to Judson Smith in Boston reports:

“A new annexation paper has been started ʻThe Hawaiian Starʻ to offset the old evening paper “The Bulletin” which is in opposition to the present regime. Some of the students have been acting as carriers for the Hawaiian (annexation) daily paper: but the natives don’t like it, wont take it, wont give their names if offered to them gratuitously.”

In 1912, the paper merged with Wallace Farrington’s "Evening Bulletin" to become Star- Bulletin.

a link to the complete first issue can be found here: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/

01/01/2020

Happy new year!

12/25/2019

Mele Kalikimaka and Merry Christmas!

12/20/2019

11/28/2019

06/26/2019

ICYMI: The Hawai‘i Digital Newspaper Project ( on Twitter) has more or less wound down, but still occasionally tweets and posts items originally published a century or two ago in the Islands' newspapers. Explore and find your own favorites at https://hdnpblog.wordpress.com/

05/27/2019

Here are more Memorial Day resources from our Chronicling America collection of historical American newspapers. https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/memorialday.html?loclr=fbloc

01/15/2019

"Words in Motion: Sharing Writing and Cultural Perspectives E Ho`olauna Kākou"
Tuesday, January 22, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Building 7, Room 521, Honolulu Campus, 874 Dillingham Blvd. Honolulu, HI 96817

Come learn about the rich cultural heritage of Hawaii’s only Japanese-language weekday newspaper, the Hawaii Hochi. Share in the discovery of publishing trends through the years. And, meet the staff responsible for this newspaper’s success.

Brenda Coston, (808) 847-9803, [email protected]
Event Sponsor: Language Arts, Honolulu Community College