By Jeremy Dibbell

We’ll hope you’ll join us this week for our last evening program of 2010: on Tuesday, 7 December we’ll host a conversation with Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of PBS Masterpiece for WGBH in Boston, as part of our “Creating the Past” conversation series. Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., with the conversation beginning at 6 p.m. Registration for this event is required; more info here.

And on Thursday, 9 December the Boston Early American History Seminar series continues with a paper by Sharon Ann Murphy of Providence College, “Banking on the Public’s Trust: The Image of Commercial Banks in Pennsylvania around the Panic of 1819.” Bruce Mann of Harvard Law School will give the comment. The seminar will begin at 5:15 p.m. Please read the Seminar Series 2010 post for information on attending MHS seminars.