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]