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Reference
Talking to Some Friends - Reference - Acknowledgements
BOOKS
Cohen, I. Bernard. Benjamin Franklin’s Science. Harvard University Press, 1990.
Fortune, Brandon Brame, with Deborah J. Warner. Franklin & His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Goodman, Nathan, ed. The Ingenious Dr. Franklin. University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1931.
Silverman, Kenneth, ed. Autobiography and Other Writings: Benjamin Franklin. Penguin, 1986.
Van Doren, Carl. Benjamin Franklin. Penguin, 1991.
BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Ages 9-12
Fritz, Jean. What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? Putnam, 1976.
Lawson, Robert. Ben and Me. Little Brown, 1988.
Rudy, Lisa Jo, ed. The
Ben Franklin Book of
Easy and Incredible Experiments. John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
Young Adult
Potter, Robert R. Benjamin Franklin (Pioneers in Change Series). Silver Burdett Press, 1992.
ELECTRONIC
RESOURCES
The American Philosophical Society
www.amphilsoc.org
A glimpse into the
scholarly institution Franklin helped to
create in 1743.
Franklin & His Friends
www.npg.si.edu/exh/franklin/
The National Portrait Gallery exhibit online.
The Franklin Institute Science Museum
www.fi.edu
The virtual version of the Philadelphia museum,
with lessons plans related to Franklin’s experiments.
The Friends of Franklin, Inc.
www.friendsoffranklin.org
Includes membership
information, notices of
new Franklin books,
and previews of tours
and events.
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