Society & Culture
883 sites
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- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://subpixel.space/
Subpixel Space is the personal writing space of Toby Shorin, featuring essays and longer written entries on ideas, culture, and internet life. The site has a minimal, thoughtful design and offers a newsletter alongside its blog-style archive of original writing.
https://goat.neocities.org/
Goat's Site is a bare-bones Neocities personal page centered entirely around the word and presumably the animal 'Goat,' with eight images and a playful retro copyright notice. Nearly empty in terms of text content, it has the feel of an experimental or novelty homepage built around a single theme.
https://whsmemorial.tripod.com/
A memorial and historical resource dedicated to Waverly Hills Sanatorium and Woodhaven Geriatric Center in Louisville, Kentucky, documenting the patients, doctors, and staff whose lives shaped the history of these tuberculosis and geriatric institutions. The site includes patient profiles, TB death rates, a photo gallery, building layouts, and a timeline of events, all sourced from photographs, news articles, and historical archives.
https://dna-explained.com/
Run by Roberta Estes, DNAeXplained is a deeply detailed genetic genealogy blog covering DNA testing, inheritance patterns, ethnicity calculations, and how to use tools like Y-DNA, mitochondrial DNA, and X-DNA to discover your ancestors. With hundreds of posts, guides on specific ancestral groups like Acadians and Native Americans, and tutorials tied to platforms like FamilyTreeDNA, this is an exceptional resource for anyone serious about DNA-based ancestry research.
http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/
Run by 'Sister Y', The View from Hell is a thought-provoking blog exploring antinatalism, consciousness, human universals, and the philosophy of existence, anchored by an extensive curated reading list of core and peripheral texts. The site draws on works by David Benatar, Thomas Ligotti, Julian Jaynes, and Jonathan Haidt to build a framework around questions of meaning, suffering, and whether life should be created at all.
https://andrewsui.tripod.com/
Andrew Sui's personal homepage from Malaysia features a substantial collection of Bible study articles covering topics like the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the Gospel of John, alongside personal testimonies and angel-themed graphics. The site also includes sections on trekking, a Mt. Kinabalu expedition, family photo pages, and early 2000s 'get paid online' programs.
https://usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/railroads
Part of the NEGenWeb Project, this site documents Nebraska's rich railroad history with sections covering railroad accidents, worker biographies, job descriptions, and the railroads that served each county. Genealogists will find it especially useful for tracing ancestors who worked on or traveled the Iron Road across Nebraska, including records from the Railway Express Agency spanning 1850 to 1975.
https://tilde.town/~gobbldyg00k
Elanor's tilde.town homepage documents her very first steps learning the command line and HTML, with a charming list of terminal discoveries she made along the way. A link to her HTML and CSS experimentation page suggests this is a budding old-web explorer just getting started in the tilde community.
http://genealogyintime.com/GenealogyResources/Articles/how_to_use_google_advanced_search_for_genealogy_part_2_page_1.html
GenealogyInTime Magazine offers detailed tutorials on using Google Advanced Search techniques to find genealogical records, covering strategies like excluding irrelevant results and refining ancestor searches. This multi-part guide is part of a broader resource hub with search engines, articles, and tips aimed at family history researchers of all skill levels.
https://vikinganswerlady.com/index.shtml
Created by Christie Ward (writing as Gunnvör silfrahárr), the Viking Answer Lady is a comprehensive reference site covering Viking Age history, daily life, technology, agriculture, warfare, art, literature, mythology, and religion. Originally written as articles for an SCA newsletter in the early 1990s, this meticulously researched site has grown into one of the most thorough English-language resources on medieval Scandinavian civilization.