Hawaiian Journal of History online

The 2011 and 2012 issues of the Hawaiian Journal of History were recently uploaded to eVols, the UH-M library's digital repository of material that is produced outside of the University of Hawaii. (The library also hosts a second repository, Scholarspace, specifically for material produced by the UH community.) All volumes of the Hawaiian Journal of History, from vol. 1 (1967) through vol. 46 (2012) are freely available for download (and also full-text searchable) at http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/9 .

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