Exhibits and Public Programs

Recent Exhibits

• Dignity, Equality, and Opportunity for All: Patsy Mink and Title IX (Online May 5-Dec 31, 2022)
• Of People and Place: Highlights from the Francis Haar Collection (Library Elevator Gallery, August 16, 2021-May 15, 2023)
• THE LUCIANO MINERBI COLLECTION: 50 Years of Collaborative Community Activism through Urban and Regional Planning (Online as of April 2020)
• Creating and Curating Change: AIDS Activism and the Fight for Same-sex Marriage in Hawaiʻi  (Moir Reading Room & Library Lobby, March-July 2019)

Exhibits about the University of Hawaiʻi

General UH History

• Highlights from the University of Hawaiʻi Press’s First 25 Years (2017)
• Fifty Years As the Center of Our Lives: University of Hawaiʻi 1907-1957 (Exhibit at the Re-Dedication of Hamilton Library, Nov. 2002)

Centennial Exhibits and Related Resources

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa celebrated its centennial of the legislation signed in 1907 to create the College of Hawaiʻi, and the centennial of class instruction which began in 1908. In 2012, we honored the centennial of the completion of the first building, Hawaiʻi Hall, on the Mānoa campus and the centennial of the first graduation. 

• “Centennial in the Library” University of Hawaiʻi: 1907 to 2007 (Library Bridge Gallery, 2007)
• Drama at the University of Hawaiʻi: The Early Years (2008)
• Charters of the University (Library Elevator Gallery, 2007)
• History of the UH-Mānoa Quad (pdf) (Lecture by University Archivist James Cartwright 9 April 2008)

Other Exhibits

• A Time of Great Testing: Senator Daniel K. Inouye and the Democratic National Convention of 1968 (Library Bridge Gallery, April-July 2018)
• Loyalty Honored: The 442nd RCT during WWII and as Remembered Since (Moir Reading Room & Library Lobby, March-May 2018)
• Mapping the Territory: Maps and Papers from the Romanzo Adams Social Research Laboratory Collection (Moir Reading Room, August 2016-June 2017)
• A Pictorial History of Peace Corps in Hawaiʻi: From the UH Peace Corps Training Center Records (2016)
• Bookmaking in the Eighteenth Century: As Depicted in Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedie (October 2013-May 2014)
• War Through a Child’s Eyes: World War II Children’s Victory Posters from the Hawaiʻi War Records Depository (2013)
• ON DUTY, OFF DUTY: A Soldier’s Life in Hawaiʻi After the Bombing of Pearl Harbor; Works by A.S. MacLeod (July 2012-March 2013)
• UH Veterans: An Exhibit from the Archives, World War I – Vietnam War (November 2011-March 2012)
• American Archives Month (2009)
• A Documented Life: The Papers of Hawaiʻi‘s Senator Spark M. Matsunaga (2005)
• Senator Hiram Fong Exhibit (June-October 2003)