Hawaii’s Story

Walk the halls of Iolani Palace with Queen Lili’uokalani, the last queen of the Hawaiian kingdom until the overthrow in 1893. She wrote this autobiography of her accession to the throne, her arrest, and trial during her imprisonment in the palace. Her appeal eventually reached President Grover Cleveland and the US Congress, but Hawai’i was formally annexed by the US the very same year this book was published. Hawai’i eventually went on to become a state in 1959, but many in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement see this as a key text documenting the overthrow of the monarchy.