Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers from Hawaiʻi and the U.S.: Project Overview

Topics pages highlight selected subjects covered by Chronicling American content. A few of interest for Hawaiʻi and the Pacific include the following. See more via the "Topics" tab above.

Other Hawaiʻi Newspapers Online

The largest collection of Hawaiʻi newspapers online is the collection of Hawaiian language newspapers available through the Hoʻolaupaʻi Hawaiian Nūpepa Collection. This project is separate from Chronicling America and features Hawaiian language newspapers published between 1834 and 1948.

More information on online Hawaiʻi newspapers and Hawaiʻi newspapers in general is available in the Newspapers in Hawaiʻi guide.

Displays selected images from advertisements in Hawaiʻi newspapers, in Chronicling America.

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CHRONICLING AMERICA = FREE ONLINE ACCESS TO U.S. NEWSPAPERS.

The following Hawaiʻi titles are currently available online through Chronicling America:

• Austin's Hawaiian Weekly (Honolulu) 1899-190? (description)
• Daily Honolulu Press (Honolulu) 1885-1886 (description)
• The Daily Bulletin (Honolulu) 1882-1895 (description)
• The Democrat (Honolulu) 1910-1910 (description)
• Evening Bulletin (Honolulu) 1895-1912 (description)
• The Garden Island (Lihue) 1911 – 1922 (description)
• Hawaii Holomua = Progress (Honolulu) 1893-1895
• Hawaii holomua (Honolulu) 1891-1895 (only June-July 1894 online)
• The Hawaiian Gazette (Honolulu) 1865-1918 (currently only 1877-1913 online) (description)
• The Hawaiian star (Honolulu) 1893-1912 (description)
• Hilo Tribune (Hilo) 1895-1917 (currently only 1902-1906 online) (description)
• The Honolulu Republican (Honolulu) 1900-1902 (description)
• Honolulu star-bulletin (Honolulu) 1912-1917 (description)
• The Honolulu Times (Honolulu) 1902-1911 (description)
• The Independent (Honolulu) 1895-1895 (description)
• The Independent (Honolulu) 1895-1905 (description)
• The Maui news (Wailuku, Maui) 1900-1922 (description)
• The Pacific commercial advertiser (Honolulu) 1856-1910 (description)
• The Polynesian (Honolulu) 1840-1841 (description)
• Polynesian (Honolulu) 1844-1864 (description)
• Saturday Press (Honolulu) 1880-1885 (description)
• The Daily Herald (Honolulu) 1886-1887 (description)

Project Overview

Chronicling America is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) / Library of Congress (LOC) project to digitize and provide free online access to historical English-language newspapers from across the United States.

Just under 4 million historic newspaper pages have already been made available, with new content added quarterly. Coverage of Hawaiʻi figures and events can be found in Hawaiʻii newspapers as well as in newspapers from around the country. Chronicling America currently contains 557 newspaper titles from 30 states and the District of Columbia, spanning 1836 through 1922.

The National Digital Newspaper Program in Hawaiʻi

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library has been participating in National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) since 2008. It has digitized and made available online 15 of Hawaiʻi's newspapers, with new content added quarterly.