More than 20 years ago, former Star Tribune reporter Bob Franklin, who died last month at age 87, changed my life as the embers of nearby fires still burned. “Hey?” he asked at the time. “Have you ...

Students at a local elementary school celebrated Black History Month through dance on Friday. The Epiphany Dance Collective out of Indianapolis performed at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School. They ...

More renovation work is planned this summer at Franklin Park Middle School in Salem. Salem Grade School Superintendent Dr.

The award-winning London production of THE RETURN OF BENJAMIN LAY is coming to the Sheen Center. Following the Sunday, March ...

The film chronicles the life of Benjamin Franklin, highlighting his early struggles as an apprentice under his brother, James ...

Todd Gannon’s intimate portrait chronicles the architect’s profound influence on American architecture before his untimely ...

When a BESS reaches the end of its useful life, disposal can be a complex task that must be carefully planned, writes Max ...

Benjamin Franklin, the oldest and perhaps wisest of the Founding Fathers, knew that the Constitution he helped draft was, in ...

The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.

But let’s be honest: No one has done more to trash and deface Ben Franklin — the actual legacy, that is, of the Philadelphia civic legend who in 1749 founded Penn with revolutionary ideas about the ...

James Madison University professor Rebecca Brannon studies age and the American Revolution. She says her students are often surprised to learn that the leaders of the Revolution were young or ...

Daylight Savings Time is often thought of as primarily benefitting farmers, but in actuality there are many businesses that ...