P.T. Barnum: The Birth of a Showman & His Personal Life The first Barnum to arrive in North America was a man named Thomas Barnum, and his three times great-grandson was a boy with a million dreams.
Any of these words and phrases could describe Phineas Taylor Barnum — and any of them would be fitting. P.T. Barnum was one of America’s most captivating personalities, at once a man who ...
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has erupted, displacing more than a million people. Many in Lebanon fear a Gaza-like campaign of violence. Taylor Lorenz’s Plan to Dance on Legacy Media ...
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 ...
P rofessor Faber’s amazing “talking machine” arrived in Cincinnati to great fanfare in 1872 when that contraption shared a bill at Wood’s Theater with the famous Bandmanns, Daniel and Millicent. The ...