When I was 12 in 1967, the circus came to our Central Valley town near Hanford. It was the talk of the school yard, when to our surprise, the circus began setting up on the school yard itself. We had ...

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Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when ...

The devices were used to track movement and measure productivity—an insightful foreshadowing of our current preoccupation ...

For decades, Joey Lombardo was a court jester, pulling pranks and pratfalls, as he fought to stay out of prison for ...

You can’t escape a certain sound. You’ll hear the click-clack of typewriter keys and the sputter of a knob turning the rubber ...

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Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in ...

"Jacques Ze Whipper" began his whipping career in the pit by Harvard's T Station, using circus skills he'd learned from his father to astound pedestrians.

Though the invention of the printing press caused a revolution, it took decades to kickstart it into high gear.

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