Thomas to Receive 1964 Bancroft Prize

John L. Thomas, assistant professor of history, and author of The Liberator: William Lieyd Garrison will receive one of the 1964 Bancroft Prizes tonight at Columbia University.

The awards, worth $4000 each and considered among the richest available to historians, are given to the authors of "the best books in American history in its broadest sense, American diplomacy, and American international relations."

Historian C. Vann Woodward has described The Liberator as "the best biography" yet written about Garrison.