The end of sugar planting closes a major chapter in Hawaii’s history. But what will be done with the aina? One hopes it will not become gated estates, with prices tragically out of reach of our local ...

The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...

Sharecropping is a system where the landlord-planter allows a tenant (usually a poor, Black family) to farm the land in exchange for a share of the crops they harvest. This encouraged poor tenants to ...

HEY, GOOD MORNING, JOE. SO YEAH, WE’RE AT MLK AND LOCUST, AS YOU JUST SAID, DEALING WITH THE OPENING CEREMONIES. AND IT IS LIKE A FAMILY REUNION OUT HERE. MANY PEOPLE LAUGH AND SAY, HEY, HOW ARE YOU ...

Historians discuss labor relations between former slaves and former masters after the Civil War. Ed Ayers: Perhaps the most fundamental thing that had to be decided the day that slavery ended was what ...