Frances Sergeant Childs

Frances Sergeant Childs (April 17, 1901 – June 11, 1988) was an American historian who was a founding faculty member of Brooklyn College. Her area of specialization was Franco-American relations in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Biography Childs was born in New York City to Frances Aimee (La Farge) Childs and Edward Herrick Childs.

Childs began her career in education as an instructor in history at Hunter College (1928–1930).

Childs retired in 1963 and died in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Books French Refugee Life in the United States, 1790-1800: An American Chapter of the French Revolution (1940) Fontaine Leval, a French Settlement on the Maine coast, 1791: A French Manuscript in the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, with an Introduction and Notes by Frances Sergeant Childs (1942) French Opinion of Anglo-American Relations: 1795-1805 (1948) Citizen Hauterive's "Questions on the United States" (1957) France in New York, 1795-1850 (1957)