Kevin Boylan

Kevin Boylan earned his BA in History from Rutgers University and his PhD from Temple University. In addition to a long career in academe, he spent 12 years conducting research and analysis for the US Army, the US Department of Defense, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He was the command historian for the US Army Medical Command / Office of the Surgeon General of the Army during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is currently employed as an official historian...See more

Kevin Boylan earned his BA in History from Rutgers University and his PhD from Temple University. In addition to a long career in academe, he spent 12 years conducting research and analysis for the US Army, the US Department of Defense, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He was the command historian for the US Army Medical Command / Office of the Surgeon General of the Army during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is currently employed as an official historian by the US Army Center for Military History in Washington, DC. He has authored a variety of articles (including two that won the Society for Military History's prestigious Moncado Prize) and several books - the most recent of which, Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu , was published by Osprey Publishing in 2018. See less