Society & Culture
883 sites
Subcategories:
- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
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.
https://tilde.town/~login/blog
The blog of tilde.town user ~login, documenting small programming projects and community tools like tcoin, a virtual currency system for the tilde.town Unix social network. Posts cover tilde community games, terminal adventures, and the quirky collaborative culture of tilde.town's shared Linux environment.
https://usgenealogyresearch.atwebpages.com/Hawaii
The HIGenWeb Team's Hawaii genealogy hub is part of the USGenWeb Project, offering county-level records, databases, and historical background on the Hawaiian Islands for family history researchers. Coordinated by Doreen Harunaga-Ewing and Bob Jenkins, the site organizes resources by county and provides free access to materials for those tracing Hawaiian and Polynesian ancestry.
https://illinoisgenweb.org/
ILGenWeb is a long-running volunteer-driven project offering free genealogical and historical resources for all 102 Illinois counties, operating since 1996 as part of the USGenWeb Project. Visitors can explore county-level records, transcribed census data, Civil War records, county boundary histories, and links to archives like the Illinois State Archives and IRAD.
https://hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
HyperHistory is an ambitious online reference navigating 3,000 years of world history through interactive timelines, maps, and synchronized chronologies of civilizations, people, and events. Covering everything from ancient cultures and the Middle Ages to modern figures like Einstein, it serves as a rich educational tool for students, researchers, and history enthusiasts alike.
https://silver.fanfreak.net/
A fanlisting dedicated to silver, the lustrous metallic element, inviting fans of the metal to add their names to a growing global list of admirers. With 51 members and running since 2009, it is a simple but long-lived community hub for those who appreciate silver in all its forms.
https://liesjournal.net/
LIES is an online home for a queer feminist communist journal produced by a collective spanning Oakland, New York, Baltimore, and New Orleans, offering free PDFs of essays tackling race, gender, transphobia, and radical feminist theory. The site hosts full issues with contributions on topics ranging from labor and reproductive work to communization theory and feminist organizing, making it a substantial archive of autonomous feminist thought.
https://sedgleymanor.com/
A richly detailed historical resource dedicated to the ancient manor of Sedgley in the Black Country, West Midlands, covering local families, churches, census extracts, parish records, and notable figures dating back to the 16th century. Visitors will find surname research tools, ancestral photographs, dialect dictionaries, war memorials, and transcribed historical documents making this an invaluable reference for anyone tracing Black Country ancestry.
https://twilightpentagram.neocities.org/
Twilight Pentagram is a gothic-flavored personal Neocities site with an old-web aesthetic, featuring a mysterious splash page inviting visitors to click through and explore. The site participates in the Hotline and Retronaut webrings, signaling its place within the handcrafted personal web revival community.
https://space-bar.neocities.org/bulletinboard
Space Bar is a quirky personal hub styled as a retro space-themed bar, featuring a bulletin board packed with curated links to queer, indie, and alternative corners of the web. The site leans heavily into LGBTQ+ community resources and countercultural destinations, with sections for a jukebox, arcade, and webrings including a Transmasculine Pride Webring.