Awards
- 1991 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1990 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, for The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal
- The Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians
- 1990; 2000 Bancroft Prize (twice) for The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal, and Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
- Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
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