CASEY Award — Judge and Jury.

• Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for US History — Roosevelt Sweeps Nation.
• F. C. Lane Award from The Diamond Angle Magazine.
• Finalist, Edgar Award — Rothstein.
• “The Best Books About Gangsters, Prohibition, and Mobsters,” Bookstore.org — Rothstein
• Finalist, Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize — TR’s Last War.
• Finalist, Seymour Medal — Judge and Jury.
• Audiofile Earphones Award for the audiobook edition — Rothstein.
• Wall Street Journal — “Five Best Books” on Political Campaigns” –– 1920
• Wall Street Journal — “Five Best Books” on “Campaigns and Candidates” –– 1948
• Kirkus Prize Nominee — 1932.
• Kirkus Prize Nominee — Roosevelt Sweeps Nation.
• New Deal Book Award Nominee — Roosevelt Sweeps Nation.
• Kirkus Starred Reviews — 1920, 1932, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation.
• Booklist Starred Review — Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia.
• www.whatwereading.com — “9 Best Books on Presidential Elections” — 1948
• www.whatwereading.com — “9 Best Books on Presidential Elections” — 1960
• Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal for World History — 1932.
• Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal for American History — TR’s Last War.
• Finalist, the CASEY Award — Lights On!: The Wild Century-Long Saga of Night Baseball.
• Nominee, NASSH Book Award — Judge and Jury.
• Selection, The Dispatch Book Club — 1920.
• Amazon’s “1 New Release in History of Mid-Atlantic U.S.” — Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City
• Co-winner Silver Medal for the Independent Book Awards for Regional Northeast Non-Fiction — Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City
• Distinguished Favorite, True Crime Category, Independent Press Award — Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City 
• Distinguished Favorite, True Crime Category, NYC Big Book Award, — Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City 
• Honored among “100 Notable alumni of SUNY at Albany” by EduRank.org
• Recipient of the 2011 Excellence in Arts & Letters Award of the Alumni Association of the University at Albany.
• Member, initial induction class of the Greater Amsterdam (NY) School District Hall of Fame.
• The NYS Governor’s Office of Regulatory Reform’s “Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement.”