Exhibits
Location: Government Documents
Description: "Uncommon valor was a common virtue." Come see what that meant in February-March of 1945. United States Marine Corps War Memorial: https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2854291 Newsmap. Monday, 5... View "Newsmap. Monday, 5 March, 1945 - Iwo, Volcano Islands, drives into Germany, ODB" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
Description: Newsmap. Monday, 26 February, 1945: week of 14 February, to 21 February, 285th week of the war, 167th week of U.S. participation. European and... View "Newsmap. Monday, 26 February, 1945 - Iwo Jima, Danzig, Corregidor" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
Description: The Yalta Agreement was signed February 11, 1945 by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin in Yalta on the Black Sea. Official agreements... View "The Yalta Agreement, 1945" Exhibit
Location: Asia Collection
China has a long history with tea. According to legend, the discovery of tea plants was credited to Shennong (literally "Divine Farmer"), who experimented with... View "品茗留香 (Ping ming liu xiang): Tea, Art of Tea, China" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
Description: Newsmap. Monday, 12 February 1945: week of 31 January to 7 February, 283rd week of the war, 165th week of U.S. participation. Manila liberated by... View "Newsmap. Monday, 12 February 1945 - Manila, Bonin Islands, Berlin, Japanese Life" Exhibit
Location: Sunny Alcove
This is the travelling version of an exhibit that is currently on view at the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health.... View "Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness" Exhibit
Location: Elevator Gallery
The "Fall of the Berlin Wall" poster exhibit commemorates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. The... View "Fall of the Berlin Wall" Exhibit
Location: Asia Collection
This exhibit celebrates the opening of the newly renovated Mughal Suite at Shangri La, former home of tobacco heiress Doris Duke, located at the foot... View "Indian Arts and Architecture at Doris Duke's Shangri La" Exhibit
Location: Bridge Gallery
Documentary photographs chronicle the response and recovery from the 2004 Manoa Stream flood in this exhibition that included a sampling of maps salvaged from the... View "Finding the Silver Lining of the Manoa Flood" Exhibit
Location: Moir Reading Room
The rare maps in this exhibit were saved by the quick response of Library staff and volunteers following the 2004 flash flood. Water and... View "Finding the Silver Lining of the Manoa Flood" Exhibit
