Star Tribune journalist Bob Franklin loved a good yarn. There were the stories he wrote about the bachelors of Herman, Minn., who outnumbered single women by eight to one. The town’s economic ...

While the answers to this question are multifaceted, the wisdom of one of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, offer a roadmap for us today. Franklin was more than just a statesman ...

Moderated by Bina Venkataraman, Editor-at-Large ... Walter Isaacson, author of "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life;" and Erica Dunbar, Professor of History, Rutgers University.

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words ...