Baylor History Professor Will Present W.C. Dobbs Endowed Lecture

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Dr. Thomas S. Kidd, associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor University, will present his lecture "Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and the Contest for Religious Liberty in Revolutionary Virginia" at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, in Paul W. Powell Chapel of George W. Truett Theological Seminary on the Baylor campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The lecture is a part of The W. C. Dobbs Endowed Lectureship in Applied Christianity series, which was established in 1995 by Dr. W. C. Dobbs, retired professor of Christian ethics at Mobile College of Mobile, Ala.

Kidd is co-director of the Program on Historical Studies of Religion of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2001. His research interests are in 18th-century North America, particularly the history of evangelicalism.

He also is the author of "Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots" (2011), "God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution" (2010) and "American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism" (2008).

For more information, contact George W. Truett Theological Seminary at (254) 710-3755.

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by Katy McDowall, student newswriter, (254) 710-6805