Awards and Honours
- 1978: Inventing America - National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction (co-winner, with Facts of Life by Maureen Howard)
- 1979: Inventing America - Merle Curti Award
- 1982: Honorary degree of L.H.D. by the College of the Holy Cross
- 1992: Lincoln at Gettysburg - National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
- 1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg - Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
- 1995: Honorary degree from Bates College
- 1998: National Medal for the Humanities
- 2004: St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates
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