A.C. Firestone
Wigs, Whalebone, and Women: Exploring how people lived, loved, and labored; One inquiry at a time.
Hello!
I am Abigail Firestone, a junior studying history and art at the University of Mary Washington. Here you can find research updates and anything history related! I hope you’ll follow along as my research expands and develops.
Looking for my art? You can find it in my Portfolio!*
*Fashion history related work is in both places! This includes recreations and costuming.
“History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.”
Virginia Woolf, A room of One’s Own, 1929
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Digital History Projects
Gilded Age Plains City What Works: Extensive, thorough history of the Sheedy Murder Trial.What Doesn’t: Unclear site title, “Gilded Age…
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Exploring Omeka
Omeka is a site-building platform, sort of like WordPress, but its purpose is more to house the digital form of…
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So… Why Digital History?
This semester (Spring, 2026) I decide to dip a little further into the digital side of history. How it works,…
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“Wreckers, Destroyers, Security Risks:”
This paper was written as a part of the requirements for HIST 300E3: The Cold War, taught by Dr. Steven…
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The AAGPBL
As my inaugural post on what I hope to be the home for my historical research from here on out,…
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