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. ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html