Comparing Trump to P.T. Barnum is an affront to all Barnums and grossly unfair to P.T. (“Donald Trump: the authoritarian P.T. Barnum of politics,” Jan. 7) As a first cousin, I feel pers… ...

For several years, a man claiming to be Barnum’s great-great-grandson offered tours of a house on King Street, which he called the Barnum House. But the family tree didn’t check out, and ...

During the years he had business in Greeley, Barnum made two or three trips to the city to check on his investments and visit his family. His cousin, E. T. Nichols, lived in Greeley and acted as PT’s ...

The bizarre message of “The Greatest Showman,” the new movie musical based on the life of famous trickster P.T. Barnum: Be yourself. A family film starring Hugh Jackman, it concludes that freak ...

First thing’s first: Though it features a character named “P.T. Barnum,” “The Greatest Showman” is in no way a factual account of the life of the celebrated 19th-century circus founder ...