Honors
- Fulbright Senior Lecturer, American Studies Research Centre, Hyperabad, India, 1967
- Harmsworth Professor, Oxford University, 1969-1970
- French-American Foundation Chair in American Civilization, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1980-1981
- Fulbright Lecturer, Universities of Guyana and the West Indies, 1974
- Honorary Degree, Dartmouth College, 1977
- Honorary Degree, University of New Haven, 1986
- President, Organization of American Historians, 1988-1989
- Presidential Medal for Leadership and Achievement, Dartmouth College, 1991
- Honorary Degree, Columbia University, 1999
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow, American Antiquarian Society
- Fellow, American Philosophical Society
- Fellow (corr.), British Academy
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