Editing P. T. Barnum (section)

== Further reading ==
* Adams, Bluford. ''E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. {{ISBN|0-8166-2631-6}}.
* Alderson, William T., ed. ''Mermaids, Mummies, and Mastodons: The Emergence of the American Museum''. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums for the Baltimore City Life Museums, 1992.
* Barnum, Patrick Warren. ''Barnum Genealogy: 650 Years of Family History''. Boston: Higginson Book Co., 2006. {{ISBN|0-7404-5551-6}} (hardcover), {{ISBN|0-7404-5552-4}} (softcover), {{LCCN|2005903696}}
* Benton, Joel. ''The Life of Phineas T. Barnum'', [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1576 Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum by Benton].
* Betts, John Rickards. "P. T. Barnum and the Popularization of Natural History", ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' 20, no. 3 (1959): 353–368.
* Cook, James W. ''The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. {{ISBN|0-674-00591-0}}. Relates Barnum's [[Fiji Mermaid]] and What Is It? exhibits to other popular arts of the nineteenth century, including magic shows and ''[[trompe-l'œil]]'' paintings.
* Harding, Les. ''Elephant Story: Jumbo and P. T. Barnum Under the Big Top''. Jefferson, NC.: McFarland & Co., 2000. {{ISBN|0-7864-0632-1}}. (129 p.)
* Harris, Neil. ''Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. {{ISBN|0-226-31752-8}}.
* {{Cite book |last1=Kunhardt |first1=Philip B. Jr. |last2=Kunhardt |first2=Philip B. III |last3=Kunhardt |first3=Peter W. |title=P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-679-43574-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/barnumillustrate00kunh }}
* {{cite book |last=Lott |first=Eric |title=Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-19-507832-9 |pages=76–78 }}
* Reiss, Benjamin. ''The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. {{ISBN|0-674-00636-4}}. Focuses on Barnum's exhibition of [[Joice Heth]].
* Saxon, Arthur H. ''P. T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. {{ISBN|0-231-05687-7}}.
* Uchill, Ida Libert. ''Howdy, Sucker! What P. T. Barnum Did in Colorado''. Denver: Pioneer Peddler Press, 2001. {{OCLC|47773817}}<!--Listed Invalid {{ISBN|0-9604468-1-0}}{{Please check ISBN|reason=Check digit (0) does not correspond to calculated figure.}}}}-->
* Jefferson, Margo. ''On Michael Jackson''. New York: Pantheon, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-307-27765-7}}. Critique of [[Michael Jackson]], including his obsession with P. T. Barnum and "Freaks."
* ''The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like It in the Universe''. Ed. by James W. Cook. Champaign, [[University of Illinois Press]], 2005. {{ISBN|0-252-07295-2}}.
* {{cite book |title=Barnum: An American Life |publisher= Simon & Schuster |year=2019 |isbn=978-1501118623 |first=Robert |last=Wilson}}
* Woolf, John. ''The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age'' (London: Michael O'Mara, 2019) {{ISBN|1782439935}}