Samuel Eliot Morison - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

Military, civilian, and foreign honors

• Legion of Merit with Combat "V"
• World War I Victory Medal
• American Campaign Medal
• Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with six campaign stars
• European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with one campaign star
• World War Two Victory Medal
• Philippine Liberation Ribbon
• Order of the White Rose of Finland
• Vuelo Panamericano Medal, awarded by the Republic of Cuba (1943)
• Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1961)
• Order of Isabella the Catholic (1963)
• Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)
• Honorary Member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati

Honorary degrees

• Trinity College, Hartford (1935)
• Amherst College (1936)
• Harvard University (1936)
• Union College (1939)
• Columbia University (1942)
• Yale University (1949)
• Williams College (1950)
• University of Oxford (1951)
• Bucknell University (1960)
• Boston College (1961)
• College of the Holy Cross (1962)

Literary prizes

• Loubat Prize (1938) for The Founding of Harvard College (1935) and Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century (1936)
• Pulitzer Prize (1943) for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942)
• Bancroft Prize (1949) for The Rising Sun in the Pacific (1948)
• Pulitzer Prize (1960) for John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1961)
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1962)
• Balzan Prize (1962) for History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (1963)
• Bancroft Prize (1972) for The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages (1971)