Canter Brown Jr, retired professor of history and political science at Fort Valley State University, USA is the author of Florida's Peace River Frontier.

Larry Eugene Rivers, professor of history at Valdosta State University, USA and former president of Fort Valley State University, is the author of Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. They are the coeditors of The Varieties of Women's Experiences: Portraits of Southern Women in the Post–Civil War Century.