He was hired by the University of Pennsylvania in 1976[2] and in 2017 became the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History Emeritus.
[4] He later attended the University of Tennessee where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees.
He has also done many lectures throughout the world in places like Oxford, Berlin, Munich, and London.
Some of those acknowledgements can be found in the book Historiography in the Twentieth Century from Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge written by Georg G. Iggers.
For example, Iggers states "Thomas Childers concentrates more directly on language."