By exploring her own engagement with opera and literature during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Michelle Orihel makes a case for why historians might acknowledge the seemingly unrelated music…

Welcome, readers, to the first installment of The Pano Compendium, a newsletter that we’ll be putting out a few times a year to keep you up to date on all things Panorama!

Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan’s research on Overseers of the Poor in the nineteenth century offers insight into contemporary actions criminalizing homelessness.

Among other symbols of authority available to local officials like sheriffs, as Chad Holmes demonstrates, even mere scraps of paper held immense power in the early republic.