Va-Hist subscribers will wish to see this press release that I just
received:

 

 

Ninth Annual Governor Henry Lecture

"Samuel Davies and Patrick Henry: Prophets of Liberty in Presbyterian
Virginia"

Dr. C. Jan Swearingen

The Library of Virginia, 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Hampden-Sydney College, Crawley Forum, 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, November
18, 2009.

 

     Dr. C. Jan Swearingen, Professor of English at Texas A&M
University, will deliver the Ninth Annual Governor Henry Lecture at the
Library of Virginia at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 17, and at
Hampden-Sydney College at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18.

     Her lecture is entitled "Samuel Davies and Patrick Henry: Prophets
of Liberty in Presbyterian Virginia." She will illuminate the Henry
family's links to the pioneering evangelist Davies and other
"dissenting" Presbyterians in Virginia, subjects that have been the
recent focus of Professor Swearingen's research in Scotland and Virginia
on a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

     Professor Swearingen holds her advanced degrees from the University
of Texas at Austin. Her published works include Rhetoric and Irony:
Western Literacy and Western Lies (Oxford, 1991) and Rhetoric, the
Polis, and the Global Village: Selected Papers from the 1998 Thirtieth
Anniversary Rhetoric Society of America Conference (1999). Her current
works in progress include After Washington: Virtue and the American
Presidency and From Church to State: Rhetoric, Religion, and the
Transformation of Liberty in Colonial Virginia. She is a past president
of the Rhetoric Society of America, and serves on the advisory board of
the Historic Polegreen Church Foundation, Mechanicsville, Virginia.

     The annual Governor Henry Lectures are jointly sponsored by the
Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation, the Library of Virginia, and
Hampden-Sydney College. The lectures are open to the public at no
charge. Free parking is available, and a reception follows each event.

     The Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation www.PatrickHenry.com owns and
operates Red Hill, the patriot's last home and burial place overlooking
the Staunton River in Charlotte County, Virginia.

     The Library of Virginia www.lva.virginia.gov holds the world's most
extensive collection of material about the Old Dominion and has been a
steward of the commonwealth's documentary and printed heritage since
1823.

     Hampden-Sydney College www.hsc.edu <http://www.hsc.edu/>  was
founded in 1775 as a private liberal arts college for men with
encouragement from Patrick Henry, who sent several of his sons to study
there, and is the tenth oldest college in the United States.


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