History
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https://siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html
A digitized presentation of 'The History of Costume' by Braun and Schneider, a landmark 19th-century German publication featuring 500 historical costume illustrations spanning antiquity through the Victorian era. Hosted by SIUE and compiled by C. Otis Sweezey, the site offers both a graphic index and text index, making it a valuable reference for costume designers, theater students, and fashion historians.
http://invisible5.org/index.php?page=lariver
Invisible5 documents a road trip audio tour along Interstate 5, with this stop focusing on the Los Angeles River and the environmental advocacy work of FoLAR (Friends of the Los Angeles River). Visitors can listen to MP3 recordings, view LANDSAT maps, and read about water pollution, habitat destruction, and community restoration efforts along one of the most heavily concrete-channelized urban rivers in the world.
http://mas-yamazaki.com/
The personal website of Masahiro Yamazaki, a Japanese author and researcher known for his works on military history and modern conflict. The site is minimal in structure, serving as an entry point to his professional and personal online presence.
https://hoaxes.org/
The Museum of Hoaxes, created by Alex Boese, is a sprawling archive dedicated to exploring deceptions, pranks, and misinformation throughout human history from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Visitors can browse hoax photos, dive into the complete April Fool's Day archive, and read blog posts debunking viral images and bizarre historical cons.
https://fanac.org/FANAC_Inc
FANAC Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and archiving the history of science fiction fandom, maintaining a vast digital archive of fanzines, convention materials, and fan art spanning decades. The site offers information about the organization's mission, contributor credits, submission guidelines for scans, and newsletters tracking the ongoing archival effort.
https://geekcode.xyz/
An archival copy of the legendary Geek Code pages, originally created by Robert Hayden in 1993 as a fun shorthand for geeks to describe themselves online. The site preserves a genuine piece of early internet culture, including the original code generator and Hayden's own reflections on the wild, pre-commercial web of the 1990s.
https://oldradio.com/
Oldradio.com, maintained by Barry Mishkind 'The Eclectic Engineer,' is a comprehensive broadcast archive dedicated to the history of radio, drawing on FCC files, university sources, and historical publications to separate fact from industry myth. Visitors can explore a deep table of contents, mailing lists for professional broadcasters, and a companion resource called the Broadcasters' Desktop Reference.
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall at Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies, is a massive curated collection of primary source texts covering the entire medieval period, from the fall of Rome through the Renaissance and Reformation. Researchers and educators will find full-text sources, saints' lives, law texts, maps, and topically organized sections on everything from the Crusades and Byzantine studies to medieval Jewish life and gender history.
https://theoi.com/
The Theoi Project is an exhaustive reference guide to Greek mythology created by Aaron J. Atsma, covering over 1,500 pages of gods, spirits, heroes, and mythical creatures sourced from classical literature and art. Visitors can explore detailed entries on every major deity and monster, browse an A-Z encyclopedia, view over 1,200 images from ancient vase paintings and mosaics, and read original classical texts.
https://davistownmuseum.org/
The Davistown Museum in Liberty, Maine is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the hand tools of New England's maritime and early industrial culture, with two physical locations and an extensive online presence. Visitors can explore annotated tool inventories, photo tours, unpublished essays, museum publications, bibliographies, and a Maine Artists Guild Gallery showcasing contemporary Maine art.