{"id":463,"date":"2022-05-21T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/?page_id=463"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:24:28","slug":"cecil-b-currey-book-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/cecil-b-currey-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecil B. Currey Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">An award for the best book published by an AGSS member during the previous year was awarded by the AGSS Executive Council for the first time to Cecil B. Currey in 1997 for Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam\u2019s Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap.\u00a0 Because of Currey\u2019s generous pledge to fund the award for future recipients, the Executive Council named the award in his honor.\u00a0 The winner of the award will receive a plaque and a monetary prize at the annual conference [usually held in the Fall].<\/span><span class=\"x_gmaildefault\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">The award is only open to members of the association.\u00a0 To be considered for the award, please send a cover letter and three copies of the book to the committee chair no later than 1 August of the year for which the book is being considered.\u00a0 In 2026, books published between 2025 and June 2026 will be considered.<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><strong><u>Award Committee<\/u><\/strong><u><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/u><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Committee Chair: Brain Parkinson<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Brian Parkinson, Professor of History<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Business, History, and Political Science Building \u2014 Room 312<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Georgia Southwestern State University<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">800 Georgia Southwestern State University Drive<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Americus, GA 31709<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Committee Member: Michael Hall<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award for the best book published by an AGSS member during the previous year was awarded by the AGSS Executive Council for the first time to Cecil B. Currey in 1997 for Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-463","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}