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Nancy Nichols Barker (1925-1994) was a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
She was a graduate of Vassar (class of 1946).
She is the author of:

★ ''The French Experience in Mexico, 1821 - 1861 : A History of Constant Misunderstanding'', 1979

★ ''Brother to the Sun King : Philippe, Duke of Orléans'', 1989

★ ''Distaff Diplomacy: The Empress Engénie and the Foreign Policy of the Second Empire''
Translator and editor of the two-volume :

★ ''The French Legation in Texas'', 1973
She was the winner of the American Historical Society's Leo Gershoy Award in 1989.