Useful Websites
Notes by Christopher Lowell.
- http://www.BenFranklin300.com
This superb site contains great resources regarding the wonderful touring exposition marking Ben’s 300th birthday and will remain a rich and multi-faceted treasure-trove on Franklin’s life and times long after the exposition closes.
- http://www.franklinpapers.org
(THE website from Yale-complete papers! The indispensable search tool.)
- http://earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/
(The autobiography – complete!)
- http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/biography/
(Excellent, thorough, basic bio of BF)
- http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/teachersguide.html
- http://www.benfranklin2006.org/links.html
(Friends of Franklin society)
- http://www.sfheart.com/FranklinsVirtues.html
- http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html
(On Daylight Savings time and gaslight)
- http://www.studyofplace.com/Modules/Module.cfm?ModuleId=2&ModuleItemId=7
(Gulf Stream)
- http://www.oceansonline.com/ben_franklin.htm
(Gulf Stream)
- http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/franklin.html
(On Franklin the writer)
- http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/court/index.htm
(On Franklin Court, Philadelphia and what’s where)
- http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/philadelphia/parkway.htm
(More on Philadelphia BF sites) Note: The Philadelphia Library Company is at 1314 Locust Street)
- http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_ccon.html#madison
(good, concise discussion of the Constitutional Convention -1787-and issues)
- http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/u/n/United_States_Constitution.html
(The Constitution itself: each part defined and discussed)
- http://www.time.com/time/2003/franklin/bfwomen.html
(Anne-Claude Lopez on Ben’s women, including wife Debbie)
- http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/philadelphia/aps.htm
(APS website about the Junto and the American Philosophical Society)
- http://abcnews.go.com/America/etc/ch3.html
(about BF and business)
- http://www.business-opportunities.biz/archives/2004/07/31/5926.php
(BF and the 12 Rules of Management)
- http://www.theglassceiling.com/wib2/ww15_top.htm
(BF and his Top Ten Business Maxims)
- http://pages.prodigy.net/jmiller.cb/pr12.html
(From “The Way to Wealth” – more slogans
- http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/whatsnew/report.asp?ObjID=nQdbIRkDgG&Content=153
Opinion: An analysis of the violations of the Constitution after 9/11 with specific references to the Patriot Act
- http://home.uchicago.edu/~ahkissel/franklin.html
Ben on a variety of things-well organized and very thorough
- http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/benjamin_franklin.html
Many good quotes from Ben
- http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/benjaminfr138450.html
Many more quotes!!
- http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/constitution_transcript.html#1.9
Constitution details. Very complete.
- http://www.pondpub.com/writing/Franklin/TOC.html
Rob Crimmins, who wrote Measure of Devotion: The Life, Logic, and Character of Ben Franklin (2001) has a great site with selections from his book and introductions to many of his chapters
- http://www/ezcontactsusa.com/eyeglasses-inventions-of-benjamin-franklin.htm This site, suggested to me by the student of a reader of my website, is a source of information about Ben, with particular focus (sorry) on his double-lensed spectacles
