Project:About

The Habele Institute offers information about the the three Freely Associated States; the nations of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, each of which have Compacts of Free Assocation with the United States.

The Habele Institute aims to provide free and navigable access to The History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents (HOM), a collection of thousands of source documents detailing the history of Micronesia from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. The multi-volume work was completed over the course of several decades by the tireless historian and polyglot Rodrigue Levesque. We hope to facilitate contemporary local and academic engagement with these unique historical resources.

The Institute is a project of the Habele Fund, a US nonprofit, established by former Peace Corps Volunteers, that serves students and schools in Micronesia.