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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

The history of training circus animals goes back much farther than what we think of today. There was no striped tent, brass band, or trainers stepping into the ring. People have watched animal ...

The traditional traveling circus might seem like an antiquated concept in the 21st century. Can circus animals, clowns and aerial artists compete with the onslaught of dazzling high-tech entertainment ...

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 ...

There’s a small brick building just off the main street in the small German village of Enkenbach-Alsenborn with blue and white striped curtains draped on either side of the entrance. From the outside, ...

Richard Lytle tapped his cane against Mary Rudnick’s headstone. “She was a performer,” he said, reading the name on the grave. “Equestrian tricks, I want to say.” The morning was wet and cold, and ...