Today's creepy clown is a Halloween favorite—and a return to the subversive figure clowns represented in the past.

When discussing professional clowns from Zanesville, we should first consider Steve Smith, a 1969 graduate of Zanesville High School. For many years he was associated with Ringling Brothers and Barnum ...

All the world loves a clown, right? Right? These clowns entertained (or frightened) Fort Worth crowds at circuses, parades and even Christmas from the 1930s into the 1960s, from the Star-Telegram ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Long before reality shows and Big Bird or Dora the Explorer, Bozo the Clown entertained children on television shows broadcast throughout the country. Larry Harmon, the driving ...

Emerson's Patriot Radio, model FC-400, made in 1940 Philadelphia Museum of Art In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on.