Award Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award

George Washington Medal of Honor (1980)

Outstanding Scholar Award (University of Alabama, 1980)

First Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award (University of Alabama, 1980)

Mortar Board honorary membership (1982)

Board of Foreign Scholarships, presidential appointment (1985-87)

Jefferson Lecture (1987)

Richard M. Weaver Award (1990)

Salvatori Award (1992)

Frederick Moody Blackmon–Sarah McCorkle Moody Outstanding Professor Award, University of Alabama (1995)

The Templeton Honor Tolls for Education in a Free Society, 1997-1998