Michael C. Hardy (born March 5, 1972) is an award-winning American historian and author of Civil War and North Carolina books and articles.

Michael C. Hardy was born in Orlando in 1972 and is a graduate of the University of Alabama's New College Life Track, with honors in Community Studies, focusing on Civil War history.

He received the 2012 Alice Parker Award for Outstanding Literature and Arts from his alma mater, the University of Alabama.

He speaks on local radio and television broadcasts, and, in 2016, he appeared in the American Heroes Channel program Blood and Fury: America's Civil War.

He hosts a popular weekly chat program on social media and has published a history blog for nearly twenty years.