Awards
- 1968 Best Bibliography Award from the Mormon History Association
- 1980 Morris Rosenblatt award for best popular interest article in Utah Historical Quarterly
- 1984 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer at Brigham Young University
- 1986 David Woolley Evans and Beatrice Cannon Evans Biography Award
- 1987 T. Edgar Lyon Award for Best Article from the Mormon History Association
- 1988 Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society
- 1991 T. Edgar Lyon Best Article Award from the Mormon History Association
- 1994 T. Edgar Lyon Award of Excellence from the Mormon History Association
- 2000 Special Citation for the book Studies in Mormon History, 1830-1997 from the Mormon History Association
- 2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library Association
- 2007 Leonard J. Arrington Award for meritorious service to Mormon history from the Mormon History Association
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