At Georgetown he was one of the most popular professors at the School of Foreign Service, where he taught a generation of future diplomats and policymakers.
His own textbook of American history, America and the World of Our Time, was published by Random House in several editions in the early 1960s.
He was married for 45 years to Frances Davids of Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, who taught 5th grade in a lengthy teaching career.
They had two children: Paul Davids, a well-known film producer/director and writer (and artist) in Hollywood (www.pauldavids.com), who is married to Hollace Davids, senior vice president of Special Projects for Universal Pictures – and Jeanie Dwyer, who with her husband, Kevin, has three children (Matthew, Julie and Colin), two of whom have graduated from the University of Southern California and one of whom is currently[when?]
One of Paul Davids' films deals to some extent with the legacy of his father: The Artist and the Shaman and the great sense of personal loss that followed his death.