Award First Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award

Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award (Wayne State University, 1975)

George Washington Medal of Honor (1980)

Outstanding Scholar 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