Introduction / Kenneth L. Ames
The circus Americanized / Janet M. Davis
The transnational history of the early American circus / Matthew Wittmann
The American circus in Victorian Britain / Brenda Assael
American circus posters / Paul Stirton
Shelburne Museum's Colchester posters and circus advertising / Kory W. Rogers
The circus parade / Gregory J. Renoff
Circus music in America / Leon Botstein
The American circus tent / Fred Dahlinger, Jr.
Elephants and the American circus / Susan Nance
Horses and cat acts in the early American circus / Brett Mizelle
Performed identities as circus illusions / Peter Tait
The Americanization of the circus clown / Rodney Huey
The American circus spectacle / Jennifer Lemmer Posey
The circus in nineteenth-century American children's literature / Ellen Butler Donovan
Circus toys in the gilded age / Eugene W. Metcalf
The WPA circus in New York / Susan Weber
Disability and the circus / Rachel Adams.
