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After earning his PhD in History,
Texas Tech offered the new
Dr. Milam a two-year visiting
professorship that “turned into a
20-year career.” Today, he is not only
a respected History professor, but
he is also the Executive Director of
the Institute for Peace and Conflict
(IPAC), which includes the world-
renowned Vietnam Center and
Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, the
world’s largest non-governmental
archive on the Vietnam War. In
2015 he was inducted into the
OCS Hall of Fame at Ft. Benning.
He was recently named to the
Veterans Advisory Committee on
to school on the G.I. Bill and earned mid-50s that “I didn’t like what I Rehabilitation (VACOR). Dr. Milam
another master’s degree in political was doing, so I quit and went back is the founding Faculty Advisor to
science. I spent 27 years in the oil to college. I went to the University of the Veteran’s Association at TTU and
and gas industry.” He had a good Houston and signed up for a course a Fulbright Scholar to the Socialist
job in Houston but realized in his about the Vietnam War.” Republic of Vietnam. “I really
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