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Hawaii
Although his flamboyant successor, Theodore Roosevelt, greatly overshadowed him, William McKinney deserves credit for establishing the United States as a global power, acquiring Hawaii and Puerto Rico, establishing the “fair trade” doctrine, and paving the way for TR’s accomplishments.
Long before it became a state, Hawaii enchanted Americans with a vision of tropical ease, languid music, and a steady throb of sensuality. That life disappeared on December 7, 1941, but vivid traces of it remain.
The Hawaii of centuries long past emerges from the landscapes crossed by its ancient trails.
The past presses close to the surface on the island of Hawaii, the southernmost in the archipelago, the one they call the Big Island.
The White Man’s Burden
When an armistice ended the Spanish-American War on August 12, the United States found itself with three major new territories obtained in three different ways. The first was Hawaii, annexed on July 7 with the President’s signature on a joint congressional resolution.
The trouble with having (and being) a hero
Charles A. Lindbergh, who vaulted to international fame 70 years ago this May by taking off alone one night and flying from New York to Paris in his single-engine monoplane, is buried in a small churchyard on the eastern end of the island of Maui in Hawaii.
Driving around the island of Hawaii, I got a strange feeling that I was driving through all of time.
He Never Got Hawaii out of His System
On Sunday morning, March 18, 1866, the steamer A jay. sailed into Honolulu Harbor while the bells of six different mission churches called the freshly converted faithful to worship.
For a century Hawaii’s westernmost island has stubbornly resisted the tides of change
For a century Hawaii’s westernmost island has stubbornly resisted the tides of change
To the question of acquiring new territories overseas, and owning colonies, one group of Americans answered with a resounding “No!”
So the Bible said, but American missionaries found Hawaii a paradise where pleasure reigned, and the sense of sin was difficult to teach
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