Awards and Honors

Henry Fellow, Cambridge University, 1938-39
Harvard Fellow, 1939-42
Pulitzer Prize for history, 1946, for The Age of Jackson
Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians, 1957, and Frederic Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, 1958, both for The Age of Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Crisis of the Old Order
Pulitzer Prize for biography, 1966, for A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
National Book Award, 1966, for A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, and 1979, for Robert Kennedy and His Times
Gold medal in history and biography, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1967
Ohio Governor's Award for history, 1973
Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, 1973, for The Imperial Presidency
Eugene V. Debs Award in education, 1974
Fregene Prize for literature, Italy, 1983
Ohioana Career Medal, awarded by the Ohioana Library Association, 1992
National Humanities Medal, 1998
Four Freedoms Award, 2003
Honorary degrees from many schools and universities, including New School for Social Research, 1966, Rutgers University, 1982, University of New Hampshire, 1985, Oxford University, 1987, Middlebury College, 1994, Harvard University, 2001