Society & Culture
883 sites
Subcategories:
- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://freeafricanamericans.com/revolution.htm
Compiled by researcher Paul Heinegg, this meticulously documented resource catalogs over 900 free African Americans who served in the American Revolution from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware. Drawing on pension records, tax lists, court documents, and military rolls, it offers deep genealogical and historical evidence for colonial-era free Black military service.
https://hiski.genealogia.fi/historia/indexe.htm
The HisKi project, maintained by the Genealogical Society of Finland, offers a searchable database of historical parish records including christenings, marriages, burials, and moves. It is an invaluable tool for tracing Finnish family history, with ongoing additions of new parishes as data is digitized.
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https://tilde.town/~krowbar
Krowbar's tilde.town home page collects a quirky mix of personal projects and community tools, including IRC chat statistics, a Pathfinder item roller, a dice bag guide, and a mission name generator. The page has a distinctly nerdy, old-web charm, even featuring a short haiku-style poem about the pain of software deployment pipelines.
https://peirce.org/
A dedicated scholarly resource exploring the life, times, and writings of Charles Sanders Peirce, the remarkable American philosopher, logician, and semiotician. The site includes hypertext editions of Peirce's writings and a community hub connecting researchers, mailing lists, and organizations devoted to his ideas.
http://genealogytoolbox.com/
Helm's Genealogy Toolbox, created by Matthew L. Helm and first appearing in 1994, claims the title of the oldest comprehensive genealogy and local history index on the web. Visitors can search a full-text index of genealogy resources or browse by U.S. state to find links pointing to research tools and local history materials across the country.
https://bisexual-webring.neocities.org/
The Bisexual Webring is an indie web community hub connecting personal websites run by people who identify under the bisexual umbrella, including bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, and related identities. Run by Kamirose and powered by Webringu, it offers a widget system and member directory for queer indie web creators to find and link to one another.
https://trickymothernature.com/
Tricky Mother Nature is a thought-provoking personal site exploring gender identity, dysphoria, and transgender experience through a series of named essays or visual pieces. Titles like 'The Gender Refugee,' 'Little Miss Dysphoria,' and 'Postrevolutionary Modes' suggest deeply personal and philosophical reflections on gender and identity.
https://libguides.princeton.edu/history/LocalHistoryUS
Princeton University Library's research guide walks students and researchers through the process of investigating U.S. local history, covering secondary sources, primary records, city directories, maps, genealogy resources, and state archives. Particularly strong on New Jersey history, it links to digital collections, WPA guides, and Princeton's own documentary projects on Trenton's 20th-century life.
http://swami-krishnananda.org/
The official website of Swami Krishnananda of the Divine Life Society, offering a rich library of eBooks, articles, audios, videos, and photos on yoga, meditation, Vedanta, the Bhagavad Gita, and Hindu philosophy. Visitors can explore deep spiritual teachings spanning mysticism, the Upanishads, and practical guidance on self-realization from one of the most respected Advaita Vedanta scholars of the 20th century.
https://thevampireproject.blogspot.com/
The Vampire Project is a research portal dedicated to vampires in all their forms, covering folklore, mythology, historical writings, otherkin materials, and cryptids related to vampiric traditions. Visitors will find blog posts exploring everything from newly unearthed Bram Stoker stories to academic analyses of vampire evolution in popular culture.