Award Cosmos Club

Presidential Medal of Freedom (1995)

American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1964)

American Philosophical Society (1973)

Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award (1997)

NAACP Spingarn Medal (1995)

Phi Beta Kappa's Sidney Hook Memorial Award (1994)

Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1994)

Charles Frankel Prize (1993)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1999)

Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002)

John W. Kluge Prize (2006)

Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (1989)

Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement (1998)

Jefferson Lecture (1976)

Phi Beta Kappa