Now Free: Thousands of Hawaii Journals

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The journal archive JSTOR announced this week that it is going to make hundreds of thousands of articles from its archives freely available online. 

The newly accessible archives opens a treasure trove of early printed works about Hawaii.

A quick search of what’s currently available reveals a record of “Sandwich Island mosses” from 1874, a folklorist’s musings about shark aumakua from 1917, many essays on annexation, a 1906 comparison between Hawaii’s geographical features and the lunar landscape, and more. 

Check out an early rendering — published in 1914 — of the Hawaii State Library in Honolulu. 

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