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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Dress, Social Death, and the Limits of Control
Okay, you may be wondering about the result of some of the other research from this semester. Digital History was…
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Hoofing It to the Finish Line
Devil-Goat Day is over! Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) the 100 Years of Devil-Goat Day project is officially over as well.…
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DGD – Final Steps
As we’re coming up to the last few weeks of the semester, the Devil-Goat Day group and I are working…
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Post Carousel, My Love
So… last week I talked a little bit about the struggle of setting up a post carousel that could handle…
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Post Carousel, My Enemy
I think the hardest part of setting up this website so far has genuinely been making the post carousel. Is…
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Research, research, research!
Hello! It’s been a little while since I updated on anything that wasn’t related to my Digital History course this…
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Copyrighting history?
The Wikipedia articles that I looked at were: Talk: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire Talk: Disco Demolition Night Talk: Winter War…
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Maps and Timelines
For this week’s post, we were tasked with making an interactive map and timeline. I made my map with StoryMapJS…
