Ben Franklin Resources
Online Resources
- THE BEN FRANKLIN 300TH ANNIVERSARY
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Ben Franklin: Citizen Ben (Teacher's Guide)
- Benjamin Franklin: His Autobiography, 1706-1757
- Ben Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
- Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids
- Electric Ben Franklin
- An Enlightened American: Benjamin Franklin
- Accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- Ben’s Verse
- Point of Invention
- Teacher Resources
- Spectrum Biographies: Benjamin Franklin
- U.S. Constitution Online: Speech of Ben Franklin
- E-book Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Online Databases
- Ben Franklin House - London
- Early America Digital Library
- Franklin Institute Online
- Yale University Library: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
- Online Activities
Writings of Ben Franklin
Franklin, Benjamin, "The Way to Wealth". Applewood Books, 1986.
Franklin, Benjamin, "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin". Dover , 1996.
Franklin, Benjamin, "Poor Richards Almanack". Peter Pauper Press; 1983.
Franklin, Benjamin, "The Poetry of Minor Connecticut Wits". Scholars Facsimilies & 2000 reprint
Franklin, Benjamin, "Satires and Bagatelles"
Selected Print Resources
The Autobiography and Other Writings. Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin: His Life As He Wrote It Edited by Esmond Wright, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989.
Brame, Brandon and Warner,Deborah Jean. Franklin & His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America . Philadelphia . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Brands, H.W. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York . Doubleday.
Cohen, I Bernard. Benjamin Franklin's Science. Cambridge , MA . Harvard University Press, 1990.
Fleming, Thomas, Editor. (1972). The Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin: A Biography in His Own Words. New York . Newsweek, Inc.
Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. (Various Publishers).
Isaacson, Walter Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Simon & Schuster, August, 2003
Lemay , J.A. Leo, wrote notes and selected the contents. Franklin Writings. New York . Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1987.
Lemay , J.A. Leo., Editor. Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective. Cranbury , NJ . Associated University Presses, Inc.,1993.
Lopez, Claude-Anne My Life with Benjamin Franklin. New Haven , CT. Yale University, 2000.
Lopez, Claude-Anne and Herbert,Eugenia W. The Private Franklin: The Man and His Family. New York . W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975.
Miller, William C. Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia Printing 1728-1766: A Descriptive Bibliography. The American Philosophical Society, 1974.
Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin Yale University Press, 2002
Sellers, Charles Coleman. Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture. New Haven , CT. Yale University Press, 1962.
Skemp, Sheila (1994). Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist. New York . St. Martin ’s Press, Inc.
Van Doren, Carl. Benjamin Franklin. New York . The Viking Press, 1938.
Winegrad, Dilys P. The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin: An American Encyclopaedist at the University of Pennsylvania . Philadelphia , PA. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990
Wright, Esmond. Franklin of Philadelphia . Cambridge , MA . The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997


