Ninth Annual Governor Henry Lecture

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.lib.va.us) 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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