The Massachusetts Historical Society will hold its annual Making History Gala online on November 17 from 6:30 – 7:30 pm. The benefit will feature Jon Meacham in conversation with Emily Rooney.

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian, contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, and contributing editor at TIME. His #1 New York Times bestseller, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, looks at tumultuous periods in American history when presidents and ordinary citizens came together to rebuild a civic trust.

Emily is the creator and former host of Greater Boston. Since 1997, Emily has brought her journalistic credentials and deep knowledge of media, politics and culture to the GBH audience and has earned numerous awards, including the National Press Club’s prestigious Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism, a series of New England Emmy Awards, and Associated Press recognition for Best News/Talk Show. Before coming to GBH, Emily was director of political coverage and special events at Fox Network in New York from 1994 to 1997. Prior to that, she was executive producer of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Emily also worked at WCVB-­TV in Boston from 1979 to 1993, where she served as news director for three years and as assistant news director before that.

Honorary Chairs of the event are Governor Charlie Baker and First Lady Lauren Baker, Edward C. and Elizabeth B. Johnson, Henry Lee, CJ and Neil Musante, and Mayor Martin J. Walsh. $500 – register at www.masshist.org.