For nearly a century, encompassing the Civil War, America’s Gilded Age, WW I, and even […]
Category: Circus
The American Circus in All Its Glory
It could be the smell that, more than anything else, that captures the feeling of […]
Circuses: Three Rings of Abuse
While some children have dreams of leaving home to join a circus, likely, the majority […]
The Cardiff Giant Was Just a Big Hoax
People during the latter part of the 1800s enjoyed having fun with one another’s heads. […]
The Juggling Genius of Paul Cinquevalli
As a young man, Emil Otto Paul Braun, born in 1859 in a Prussian (now […]
The Sideshow Magician Who Inspired Ray Bradbury—Then Vanished
A stage magician, only Mr. Electrico, disappeared to the American middle of the country. The […]
Hollywood’s First Professional Stuntwoman Jumped From Planes and Swung Onto Trains
Helen Gibson had a problem. She was required to jump from a sitting perched on a pair […]
Maximal dynamic forces exerted by acrobats on nine circus …
You can also read about it here. The engineering research on circus practice has been […]
Love and Magic; or, A Trip to the Circus
When I look back at my life, it is clear that I was always fascinated […]
How the ‘circus’ became the metaphor of choice in political rhetoric
This article, written by Dr. Eleanor Lybeck, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Irish Studies and Department of English, […]