Border War: A Yankee Family in Civil War Missouri

A chronicle of the harrowing experiences of one family surviving the perilous home front of Missouri in the Civil War

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.