The Hawaiian Islands under the American flag: annexed in 1898, organized as the Territory of Hawaii in 1900, a plantation society transformed by Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War, and admitted as the 50th state on 21 August 1959.
Continuing US state; the native Hawaiian sovereignty movement, and the 1993 US Apology Resolution for the 1893 overthrow, keep the annexation a live question.
The standard one-volume history of Hawaii from Cook to statehood — the territorial and statehood chapters cover this record. (Open Library verified: Gavan Daws, 1968)
The classic social history of territorial Hawaii — plantations, immigration, politics — written on the eve of statehood. (Open Library verified: Lawrence H. Fuchs, 1961)