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.
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.