Taking Hawaii

The true story of a queen deposed, a five-year police state, an attempted counter-coup, and the end of an independent nation.

On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of ...