Society & Culture
883 sites
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- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://deadmalls-library.neocities.org/
The Library of Dead and Abandoned Malls is a growing archive dedicated to documenting shuttered and abandoned shopping malls across the United States, organized by state. Built with clear old-web charm, the site offers a fascinating snapshot of retail decline in America and promises to expand its coverage as more malls are catalogued.
https://migrantvoices.pitt.edu/
Created by graduate student Adam Lee Cilli at Pitt-Greensburg, this site makes previously inaccessible oral history recordings of Black migrants to Pittsburgh available to the public for the first time. It serves as a central hub covering the Great Migration from 1915 to 1930, featuring interviews, letters, and primary sources that illuminate the experiences of African Americans who relocated from the rural South to Pittsburgh's industrial economy.
https://bureaumirror.neocities.org/
Bureau Mirror is a thoughtful personal blog by a Neocities-hosted writer who muses on philosophy, aesthetics, film, music, and everyday life through carefully crafted essays. The site reflects a distinctly Deleuzian sensibility, weaving together cultural commentary, literary references, and personal reflection in a digital garden spirit.
https://tilde.town/~krowbar/circle
Krowbar's Circle is a curated community directory on tilde.town, listing member pages from the tilde.town indie Unix community in a browsable, old-web style format. It serves as a neighborly hub connecting residents of this collaborative tilde server, making it easy to discover the creative personal pages of fellow community members.
https://thekillingmoon.neocities.org/
Sölvi's personal homepage features buttons, blinkies, and stamps reflecting a love of post-punk and goth culture, with nods to Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie, Bauhaus, and David Byrne. Still a work in progress, the page has a distinctly dark alternative aesthetic with references to horror manga like Uzumaki.
https://demozoo.org/
Demozoo is a comprehensive database and archive dedicated to the demoscene, cataloging productions, groups, sceners, parties, and BBSes from the global demo community. From cracktros and C64 demos to demoparty calendars and awards like the Meteoriks, it serves as the definitive encyclopedia for anyone interested in the art of real-time computer demos.
https://cagenweb.org/capioneer
The California Pioneer Project maintains a crowdsourced list of settlers who migrated to or were born in California prior to 1880, compiled from genealogical researchers across the country. Visitors can browse pioneer names by county, access Gold Rush-era diary bibliographies, search county biographical indexes, and connect with other researchers through a contact directory.
https://e-anglais.com/thesis.html
Kevin Halion's full academic thesis presents a rigorous defense of the distinction between normal and parasitic speech acts, engaging the famous philosophical debate between Jacques Derrida and John Searle over Austin's speech act theory. The work is organized into detailed chapters covering iterability, deconstruction, performatives, and the graphematic nature of language, making it a substantial scholarly resource for anyone studying philosophy of language.
https://hebrew4christians.com/Links/links.html
The links page for Hebrew for Christians, a site created by John J. Parsons, curates hundreds of categorized resources covering Hebrew learning, Messianic Judaism, Jewish holidays, Torah study, Israeli news, and Christian apologetics. It serves as a well-organized jumping-off point for those exploring the intersection of Jewish tradition and Christian faith.
https://unsm-ento.unl.edu/Egyptian_Sacred_Scarab/egs-text.htm
Curated by Elaine A. Evans of the McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, this scholarly resource explores the sacred scarab amulet of ancient Egypt in rich detail, covering its religious symbolism, types, ornamentation, and connection to the god Khepri. Featuring museum collection pieces and references to Egyptological sources like Flinders Petrie, it offers an authoritative and accessible look at one of antiquity's most iconic artifacts.