James Deutsch - Senior Content Coordinator, Smithsonian’s America at 250 Book Project Circus poster showing performers in a pool Library of Congress Circus poster showing the "Great Jumbo's Skeleton" ...

American small towns circa 1900, whether they are viewed as cozy and homey nests of family life or as bleak Main Streets peopled by philistines, were indisputably colorless. They were dusty in the ...

The Ringling Museum of Art is turning into a three-ring circus -- and visitors can step right up and be a part of it. If you want to get a sense of what it's like to walk on a high wire, or squeeze ...

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, live at the Times Union Center earlier this month, has forever billed itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth.'' A circus historical display in Proctors' arcade ...

All Ron Berger wanted was to install a door between two buildings. Instead, much to his astonishment, he opened a window into the early history of Durand, Wisconsin, on Labor Day weekend 2015 when he ...

Crystal Palace Grand Imperial Circus and Hippodrome: Nora, the Only Performing Hippopotamus in the World, c. 1932, Maycock Cadle & Graham Ltd. Howard Tibbals Collection. Les 4 Freres Bouglione ...

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds a collection of circus memorabilia dating from the middle of the nineteenth century to about 1940. As historian Janet Davis writes in ...

PROVIDENCE — Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, step right up! For your viewing pleasure: wonderments and freaks, feats of artistic bravado, and disturbing evidence of colonialist bigotry! “Circus” ...