Winner of the Herbert Feis Award of the American Historical Association, 1985.
— American Historical Association.
Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association, 1985.
— Southern Historical Association.
Winner of the 1990 Robert Athearn Award of the Western History Association.
— Western History Association
Honorable Mention for the 1990 James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize in History and the Social Sciences from the American Conference for Irish Studies.
— American Conference for Irish Studies