"Barnum Museum's Showman's Shorts" is based on the life of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus founder P.T. Barnum.

Chang and Eng Bunker were conjoined twins who became a sideshow sensation in the 19th century. Billed as the "Siamese Twins," ...

At a meeting Thursday, the Denver Public Library Commission approved changing the name of the Ross-Barnum Branch Library in west Denver. The library is now the Ross-Phyllis Bigpon ...

unknown author/public domain – Original / License P.T. Barnum, who founded the Barnum and Bailey Circus, bought Jumbo for $10,000 (approximately $290,516 in today’s currency) to show him off in his ...

“The traditionalist side of the Catholic Church in the United States has tolerated Francis, resented him, denigrated him, ignored him,” the writer Paul Elie says. “But also attached themself ...

PT Barnum is credited with the quote, “All publicity is good publicity”. His idea being that even bad publicity still gets your name out there and recognized. But old PT wasn’t around in the days of ...

The year prior, Phineas Taylor Barnum and William Cameron Coup launched the P.T. Barnum’s Museum, Menagerie & Circus and quickly became the most popular and successful circus of the times. Wanting to ...

Some of the numbers, announced by a president playing the role of a dollar-store PT Barnum as he brandished a scorecard highlighting the perceived baddies, are mindboggling. The baseline charge is ...

Messrs. P.T. Barnum, J.L. Hutchinson, and J.A. Bailey, proprietors of the "greatest show on earth," and James Elliott, father of all but one of the Elliott children, were arrested yesterday ...

But even 170 years ago, April Fool’s Day had its detractors. Presciently, Herman Melville, tired of American pranksters such as PT Barnum fooling gullible members of the public, included in his 1857 ...

From the looks of it, the statement attributed to PT Barnum, an American showman in the 1900s, that “there’s a sucker born every minute” continues to hold true up to the present. The AI ...

A member of the East End gang in Bridgeport has been sentenced to more that 22 years in federal prison for his role in homicides and attempted homicides of rival gang members and narcotics ...