Children don't just deal with parental death. Many changes after the death of a parent can feel like deep losses while they ...

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 ...

At a meeting Thursday, the Denver Public Library Commission approved changing the name of the Ross-Barnum Branch Library in ...

This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman who was supposedly George Washington's ...

“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 ...

Barnum's father died when he was 15 and he was determined to rise up from his poor living. He first bought a museum and made it into a live performance with animals. He would then partner with ...