online at http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/franklin.htm

Guide to Benjamin Franklin

by Richard Jensen
January 2007

  • click here for text of Almanac
    original Almanac
  • Autobiography

    efficient Franklin Stove resulted from study of heat

    Franklin Stove



    Bibiliography 2006
  • For a modern edition of his major works, see Franklin: Writings The Library of America edition (1987). Complete text; recommended
  • Benjamin Franklin Reader edited by Walter Isaacson (2003); good short collection
  • The Papers of Benjamin Franklin complete Yale collection, with tens of thousands of documents

    biographies

  • Specialized Scholarly Studies