Sailing through History: Vietnam & Beyond

Edward Miller is a historian, teacher, and digital humanist. His research and teaching at Dartmouth focus on Modern Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and oral history. His scholarship explores the international and transnational dimensions of the Vietnam War. Professor Miller’s publications include Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam (Harvard, 2013) and The Vietnam War: A Documentary Reader (Wiley, 2016). He is currently at work on a book-length study of the Vietnam War in the Mekong Delta that re-interprets the conflict there as a civil war. He is also co-editing a volume of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War.

Professor Miller previously worked as an advisor on Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary film The Vietnam War (2017) and also advised the curators of the U.S. National Archives’ Remembering Vietnam Exhibit (2017-2019). In Vietnam, he consulted on the design of a museum exhibit that opened in 2018 at Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, one of the most-visited public history sites in Vietnam.

Professor Miller received his B.A. from Swarthmore College, M.A. from the University of Michigan, and Ph.D. from Harvard University.