Awards
Kenyon College awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1997.
In 1998, Lyons Township High school named him to its Hall of Fame
The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (UK) awarded him its Caird Medal in 2000 for his contributions to the field of maritime history.
In 2003, the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) presented him its K. Jack Bauer Award for service to maritime history.
In 2009, he received the Department of the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award for his work as chairman, Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History, 2006–2008. In addition, the USS Constitution Museum presented him with its Samuel Eliot Morison Award. and the Navy League of the United States presented him with its Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement.
In 2012, the Naval Order of the United States awarded him its Admiral of the Navy George Dewey Award.
He is an honorary corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences, the Académie du Var (France), the Society for Nautical Research, and the Portuguese Navy's Academia de Marinha.
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