Marilyn Ferris Motz is emeritus associate professor and former chair of the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. She is author of True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and Their Kin, 1820-1920; coeditor of three books, including Making the American Home: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840-1940; and author of articles on nineteenth-century Midwestern diaries, photo albums, and domestic material culture.