Kenneth W. Noe is an American historian whose primary interests are the American Civil War, Appalachia and the American South. He has most recently published The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War.

Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1957, he grew up in Elliston, Virginia. He received his B.A. from Emory & Henry College, M.A. from Virginia Tech in 1981, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1990. He was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize, and twice a Pulitzer Prize entrant, for his books Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, and The Howling Storm. In 2021 he retired as the Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University in Alabama.[1]

Bibliography

  • Kenneth W. Noe (2021). The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-7320-6. Pulitzer Prize Entrant, 2020; Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Finalist, 2021
  • Kenneth W. Noe, ed. (2013). The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-1808-6.
  • Kenneth W. Noe (2010). Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3377-3.
  • Daniel McDonough and Kenneth W. Noe, ed. (2006). Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen. Seligsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press. ISBN 1-57591-101-9.
  • Kenneth W. Noe (2001). Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2209-0. History Book Club Alternate Selection, 2001; Pulitzer Prize Entrant, 2001; Peter Seaborg Book Award for Civil War Non-Fiction, 2002; Kentucky Governor's Award, 2003
  • Kenneth W. Noe and Shannon H. Wilson, ed. (1997). The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 1-57233-269-7.
  • Kenneth W. Noe, ed. (1996). A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (U. S. A.). Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 1-57233-126-7.Tennessee History Book Award, 1997
  • Kenneth W. Noe (1994). Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02070-7.

References

  1. ↑ "Kenneth W. Noe". Auburn University. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
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