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Left to right: Interviewee Tadao Beppu, Daniel Inouye, and interviewee Mike Tokunaga on a trip to the Democratic Western Region Conference, San Francisco, 1957. (Photo courtesy Betty Tokunaga.)
Left to right: Interviewee Tadao Beppu, Daniel Inouye, and interviewee Mike Tokunaga on a trip to the Democratic Western Region Conference, San Francisco, 1957. (Photo courtesy Betty Tokunaga.)

Hawai‘i Political History Documentation Project

Forty-two former office holders, aides, appointees, party organizers, union officials, lobbyists, and political observers share their perspectives on territorial and state politics. June 1996, 1618 pages, 3 volumes.

Cecil Dotts’ English class performs an adaptation of A Mid-Summer’s Night Dream, Konawaena School gym, 1932. (Photo courtesy Cecil Dotts.)
Cecil Dotts’ English class performs an adaptation of A Mid-Summer’s Night Dream, Konawaena School gym, 1932. (Photo courtesy Cecil Dotts.)

Public Education in Hawai‘i: Oral Histories

Former administrators and teachers discuss their backgrounds, training, careers, and educational philosophies, practices, and attitudes. September 1991, 612 pages, 2 volumes, photographs.

SFCA Art in Public Places sculpture Chance Meeting by George Segal. It is installed next to the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus. (COH photo.)
SFCA Art in Public Places sculpture Chance Meeting by George Segal. It is installed next to the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus. (COH photo.)

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts: An Oral History

SFCA executive directors, staff and commissioners, arts educators, and others talk about the origins and growth of the agency, its early goals and achievements, and the development and role of arts in the community. May 1991, 445 pages, 1 volume, photographs.