James Deutsch | Senior Content Coordinator, Smithsonian’s America at 250 Book Project Trained and created for UniverSoul Circus in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Pizza Posse marries acrobatics to ...

Trapeze artist Antoinette poses with her husband aerialist Arthur "Art" Concello. Milner Library's Circus and Allied Arts Collection For years, Illinois State University’s Milner Library has made it ...

Editor's note: This the first in a three-part series on the history of the circus in North Dakota. For 140 years, the circus has provided entertainment for residents of North Dakota. During the early ...

Angela discovers why Circus World made Wisconsin a nationally renowned historic site and where the Ringling Brothers began in 1884. The museum features daily performances under the billowing big top — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peru, Indiana, is known as the "Circus Capital of the World" and has a circus history that dates back over 100 years. In the ...

Among the first circuses to visit Lancaster was the June & Turner’s Circus, and Spalding’s North American Circus in 1845. Barnum’s Grand Traveling Exhibition arrived in 1848 with a “splendid pavilion, ...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is drawing to a close this weekend after 146 years of performances and travel that at times have been marred by tragedy and celebrated in film, but also ...

With a new gallery in the circus museum and a photography exhibition exploring the backstage life of the traveling carnival and circus, The Ringling offers even more immersion into circus history. On ...

SOMERVILLE -- This circus scene photo was taken in Somerville in 1907. While the identity of the circus pictured cannot be stated with certainty, it is almost certainly not "P.T. Barnum's Museum, ...

Sailor Circus “Celebrate 70” spring show: Thursdays through Saturdays, April 18-20, April 25-27; 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays; $15 to $28; Sailor Circus Arena, 2075 Bahia Vista ...