Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is a book by Liliuokalani,
the last reigning monarch of Hawaii. In it, she gives her account of
her upbringing, her ascension to the throne, the overthrow
of her government by pro-American forces, her arrest and trial,
and her appeals to the American government to restore the autonomy
of Hawaii. These appeals were ultimately unheeded; instead, in
1898, the same year the book was published, the
United States Congress formally annexed Hawaii.
