Books on slavery and immigration among Lukas project winners

NEW YORK (AP) — Books about slavery, immigration and drug treatment are among this year’s winners of awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Project.  Jessica Goudeau’s “After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America” won the Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000 honor for a socially or politically themed work which demonstrates “literary grace, commitment to serious research, and original reporting.” The Mark Lynton History Prize, also worth $10,000, was given to William G. Thomas III for “A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War.”