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 ...

From lion tamers to pink elephants, a fine new anthology chronicles the golden age of the circus. It wasn’t always about fights over animal rights and Cirque du Something or Other. The American circus ...

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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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you haven’t been to the circus in a while, perhaps it is time to reconsider. In the early to mid-decades of the last ...

A council has removed posters advertising a circus following a complaint from a woman who is scared of clowns. Leighton Buzzard Town Hall Council said it took down the adverts after one complaint - in ...

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 ...