The surge was topped off by Hawaii's statehood, on 21 August 1959, but the vision of a mythical kingdom on America's Pacific frontier was still expanding.
Hawaii gained statehood in 1959.
The standards alphabetized by topic, pulling together all references to a particular topic in one section, and integrating illustrative material from both the SFFASs and the original Exposures Draft wherever possible--those are all achieved in Volume II.