Join us October 29th, 2009 as we begin the second year of our Teaching American History grant. We are pleased to welcome to MSUM Dr. Kenneth Noe who will deliver a talk entitled "Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861."
Dr. Noe is the Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University. His major teaching and research areas are the American Civil War and Appalachian history. He is the author or editor of five books: Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen, co-edited with Daniel J. McDonough (Seligsgrove, Pa., 2006); Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (Lexington, 2002); The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays, co-edited with Shannon H. Wilson (Knoxville, 1997); A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry(U.S.A.) (Knoxville, 1996); and Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis (Urbana, 1994; paperback ed., Tuscaloosa, 2003). He has just completed a new book manuscript on Confederate soldiers who enlisted after 1861, the subject of his talk at MSUM.
