James M. Denham

James M. Denham is a professor of history and director of the Lawton M. Chiles Jr. Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. He is the author of A Rogue's Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821– 1861, and coauthor of Florida Sheriffs: A History, 1821– 1945, as well as two University of South Carolina Press books— Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillette Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams and Echoes from a Distant Frontier: The Brown Sisters' Correspondence in Antebellum Florida.