Awards
- 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Grant: A Biography.
- 1982 Parkman Prize for "Grant: A Biography"
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1987)
- The Lincoln Prize 1991 for Frederick Douglass (based upon the life of Frederick Douglass).
- 1992 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians.
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