Gettysburg CWI Summer 2023 Conference- Weathering the Civil War- Kenneth Noe

Weather, especially weather during the Civil War, dictates more of what we do than you might think. Kenneth Noe talks about it in this lecture given on June 9, 2023. If you enjoy this lecture and want to diver deeper into the subject, please consider becoming a Patron at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg   A native of Virginia, Ken Noe is a graduate of Emory & Henry College, earned masters degrees at Virginia Tech and the University of Kentucky, and received his doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1990. He taught at the University of West Georgia for a decade and then at Auburn University from 2000 until 2021. He is the author or editor of eight books, most recently The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate and the American Civil War, a Lincoln Prize finalist in 2021 and co-winner of the 2022 Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award. Twice a Pulitzer Prize entrant, he also received the 2002 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War history for Perryville, the 1997 Tennessee History Book Award for A Southern Boy in Blue, and several teaching awards. He is currently researching the myths and realities of Abraham Lincoln's tenure as Commander-in-Chief. When not thinking about the Civil War, he is hiking or following Liverpool FC, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and every school he ever attended. Contact him for book reviews or speaking engagements at [email protected].   Check out Ken's website https://kennethwnoe.com/