Kenneth W. Noe
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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Kenneth W. Noe". Auburn University. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
External links
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- Interview with Kenneth W. Noe on Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861
- https://kennethwnoe.com
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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Categories:
- Historians of the American Civil War
- Living people
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- 1957 births
- Emory and Henry University alumni
- University of Illinois alumni
- Virginia Tech alumni
- Auburn University faculty
- People from Richmond, Virginia
- People from Montgomery County, Virginia
- Historians from Virginia
- American male non-fiction writers