The area is named for missionary Rev. Hiram Bingham ... and brought home to 2311 Bingham in 1946. “Bingham Tract was, like every place in Hawaii, a pretty innocent place. We didn’t lock ...

As a young man, he changed his first name in honor of Hiram Bingham, a 19th-century missionary in Hawaii and a fellow Congregationalist. His father had emigrated as an indentured servant on a ...

Today, Hawaii has all the comforts of a modern society ... but too often it came at the cost of assimilation. The Rev. Hiram Bingham, aboard the ship Thaddeus, arrived from Boston in 1820.

This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. When New England missionary Hiram Bingham arrived in Hawaii in 1820, he was dismayed to find the natives indulging ...

His grandfather's book A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands presaged James Michener's Hawaii. His father, Hiram Bingham III, was a renowned explorer and, later, a U.S. senator.

Most newspaper accounts embellished the story, saying he picked the name in honor of Hiram Bingham, one of the first New England missionaries to arrive in Hawaii in the early 1800s. Working at age ...

Yale University has agreed to return to Peru thousands of Inca relics that were excavated at Machu Picchu from 1911-15 by a history professor, Hiram Bingham. Peru demanded the artefacts back last year ...