Kelli Y. Nakamura
Kelli Y. Nakamura is an associate professor of history at Kapi’olani Community College in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Hawaii’s Long Road to Becoming America’s 50th State
More than 60 years after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, Hawaii (Native spelling: Hawaiʻi) officially became America’s 50th state on August 21, 1959. The cluster of islands, situated some 2,400 miles off the U.S. mainland in the South Pacific, followed Alaska, the 49th ...read more