Editing Benjamin Franklin (section)

===Scholarly studies===
* {{cite web |title=Inventor |url=http://fi.edu/franklin/inventor/inventor.html |publisher=The Franklin Institute |access-date=April 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305234033/http://fi.edu/franklin/inventor/inventor.html |archive-date=March 5, 2007 |url-status=dead |ref=institute }}
* {{cite book | last=Anderson | first=Douglas | title=The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin  | year=1997 | place=Baltimore | publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press | isbn=978-0801854453| ref=none}}
* {{cite book | editor-last=Buxbaum | editor-first=M. H. | title=Critical Essays on Benjamin Franklin | year=1987 | isbn=978-0816186990 | publisher=GK Hall | place=Boston| ref=none}}
* {{cite book | last=Chaplin | first=Joyce | title=The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius | year=2007 | place=New York | publisher=Basic Books | isbn=978-0465009565| ref=none}}
* {{cite book | last=Cohen  | first=I. Bernard | author-link=I. Bernard Cohen| title=Benjamin Franklin's Science | year=1990 | place=Cambridge, MA | publisher=Harvard University Press | isbn=978-0674066588| ref={{SfnRef|Cohen|1990}}}}
* {{cite book | last=Conner | first=Paul W. | title=Poor Richard's Politicks: Benjamin Franklin and His New American Order | year=1965 |isbn=978-0195005141 | place=New York | publisher=Oxford University Press| ref=none}}  
* {{cite thesis | date=2011 | last=Dixon | first=Charles Robert | title=All about the Benjamins: The Nineteenth Century Character Assassination of Benjamin Franklin | degree=PhD | publisher=University of Alabama| ref=none}} ProQuest Dissertations, 3461038.
* {{cite book | author=[[Philip Dray|Dray, Philip]] | title=Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America | year=2005 | isbn=978-0812968101 | place=New York | publisher=Random House| ref=none}}
* {{cite book | last=Dull | first=Jonathan R. | title=A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution | year=1985 | isbn=978-0300034196 | place=New Haven | publisher=Yale University Press| ref=none}}
* {{cite book | last=Dull | first=Jonathan R. | title=Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution | year=2010 | isbn=978-0803230330 | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | place=Lincoln, NE| ref=none}}
* {{cite book | last=Ford | first=Paul Leicester | title=The Many-Sided Franklin | year=1921 | url=https://archive.org/details/manysidedfrankli01ford | place=New York | access-date=June 5, 2024 | publisher=The Century Company| ref=none}} 
** [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABP2287-0058-201 "Franklin as Politician and Diplomatist"] in ''The Century'' (October 1899) v. 57 pp.&nbsp;881–899. By Paul Leicester Ford.
** [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABP2287-0057-169 "Franklin as Printer and Publisher"] in ''The Century'' (April 1899) v. 57 pp.&nbsp;803–818.
** [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABP2287-0058-172 "Franklin as Scientist"] in ''The Century'' (September 1899) v.57 pp.&nbsp;750–763. By Paul Leicester Ford.
* Frasca, Ralph. "Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network and the Stamp Act." ''Pennsylvania History'' 71.4 (2004): 403–419 [https://journals.psu.edu/index.php/phj/article/download/25899/25668 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115040142/https://journals.psu.edu/index.php/phj/article/download/25899/25668 |date=January 15, 2021 }}.
* Frasca, Ralph. ''Benjamin Franklin's printing network: disseminating virtue in early America'' (U of Missouri Press, 2006) [https://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-Franklins-Printing-Network-Disseminating/dp/0826216145/ excerpt].
* {{cite journal | last1 = Gleason | first1 = Philip | year = 2000 | title = Trouble in the Colonial Melting Pot | journal = Journal of American Ethnic History | volume = 20 | issue = 1| pages = 3–17 | doi = 10.2307/27502642 | jstor = 27502642 | s2cid = 254480258 }}
* {{cite thesis | date=2000 | last=Hartsock | first=Pamela Ann | title='Tracing the Pattern among the Tangled Threads': The Composition and Publication History of 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin' | degree=PhD|publisher=University of Missouri | ref=none}} ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 9999293.
* {{cite book | last=Houston | first=Alan | title=Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-300-12447-7 | place=New Haven | publisher=Yale University Press| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dMN9VEhrTxwC&pg=PA106}} 
* Kidd, Thomas S. ''Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father'' (Yale UP, 2017) [https://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-Franklin-Religious-Founding-Father/dp/0300217498/ excerpt]
* {{cite book | editor-last=Lemay | editor-first=J.A. Leo | title=Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective  | year=1993 | access-date=June 5, 2024 | url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_087413448X | place=Newark, DE | publisher=University of Delaware Press | isbn=0-87413-448-X| ref=none}}
* {{cite journal | last=Mathews | first=L.K. | title=Benjamin Franklin's Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750–1775 | journal=American Political Science Review | volume=8 | date=August 1914 | issue=3 | pages=393–412 | doi=10.2307/1946173 | jstor=1946173 | url=https://archive.org/details/jstor-1946173 | access-date=June 5, 2024| ref=none}}
* {{cite journal | last1 = McCoy | first1 = Drew R. | author-link = Drew R. McCoy | year = 1978 | title = Benjamin Franklin's Vision of a Republican Political Economy for America | journal = William and Mary Quarterly | volume = 35 | issue = 4| pages = 607–628 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1923207 | doi = 10.2307/1923207 | jstor = 1923207 | access-date=June 5, 2024| ref=none}}
* {{cite book | editor-last1=Merli | editor-first1=Frank J  | editor-first2=Theodore A. | editor-last2=Wilson | title=Makers of American Diplomacy, from Benjamin Franklin to Henry Kissinger | year=1974 | url=https://archive.org/details/makersofamerican00merl | access-date=June 5, 2024 | place=New York | publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons | isbn=0-684-13786-0|ref=none}} 
* {{cite journal | last=Mulford | first=Carla | title=Figuring Benjamin Franklin in American Cultural Memory | journal=New England Quarterly | volume=72 |issue=3 | year=1999| pages=415–443 | doi=10.2307/366890 | jstor=366890 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/366890 | access-date=June 5, 2024|ref=none}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Nash|first=Gary B.|date=December 2006|title=Franklin and Slavery|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4599029|journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society|volume=150|issue=4|pages=618–638|jstor=4599029|ref=nash2006}}
* {{cite journal | last=Newman | first=Simon P. | title=Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia | journal=Journal of American Studies | date=August 2009 | volume=43 | issue=2 | pages=161–175 | doi=10.1017/S0021875809990089 | jstor=40464376 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40464376 | access-date=June 5, 2024| ref=none}}
* {{cite book|last=Olsen|first=Neil C.|year=2013|title=Pursuing Happiness: The Organizational Culture of the Continental Congress|publisher=Nonagram Publications|isbn=978-1-4800-6550-5 | place=Milford, CT}}
* {{cite book | last=Olson | first=Lester C. | title=Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology  | year=2004 | publisher=University of South Carolina Press | place=Columbia, SC | isbn=1-57003-525-3| ref=none}} 
* {{cite journal | last=Rosenthall | first=Karen M. | title=A Generative Populace: Benjamin Franklin's Economic Agendas | journal=Early American Literature | volume=51 | issue=3 | year=2016 | pages=571–598 | doi=10.1353/eal.2016.0047 | jstor=90000884 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/90000884 | access-date=June 5, 2024| ref=none}}
* {{cite journal | last=Royot | first=Daniel | title=Review: New Perspectives on Benjamin Franklin's Humor | journal=Studies in American Humor | year=2006 | volume=3 | issue=14 | pages=133–138 | jstor=42573707 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42573707 | access-date=June 5, 2024| ref=none}}
* {{cite book | last=Schiffer | first=Michael Brian | title=Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment | year=2003 | isbn=0-520-23802-8 | publisher=University of California Press | place=Berkeley}}
* {{cite book | last=Skemp | first=Sheila L. | title=Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist | year=1994 | isbn=978-0312086176 | publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's | place=Boston | url=https://archive.org/details/benjaminwilliamf0000skem_x1h1/page/n5/mode/2up | access-date=June 5, 2024| ref=none}} 
* {{cite thesis |date=2009 | last=Slack | first=Kevin Lee | title=Benjamin Franklin and the Science of Virtue | degree=PhD | publisher=University of Dallas| ref=none}} ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 3357482.
* {{cite thesis | last=Smart | first=Karl Lyman | date=1989 | title=A Man for All Ages: The Changing Image of Benjamin Franklin in Nineteenth Century American Popular Literature | degree=PhD | publisher=University of Florida| ref=none}} ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 9021252.
* {{cite book | last=Waldstreicher | first=David | title=Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution | isbn=978-0809083152 | publisher=Hill and Wang | year=2004 | place=New York| ref=none}}
* [[Kerry S. Walters|Walters, Kerry S.]] ''Benjamin Franklin and His Gods.'' (1999). 213 pp. Takes position midway between D H Lawrence's brutal 1930 denunciation of Franklin's religion as nothing more than a bourgeois commercialism tricked out in shallow utilitarian moralisms and [[Owen Aldridge]]'s sympathetic 1967 treatment of the dynamism and protean character of Franklin's "polytheistic" religion.
* {{cite journal | last=York | first=Neil | title=When Words Fail: William Pitt, Benjamin Franklin and the Imperial Crisis of 1766 | journal=Parliamentary History | date=October 2009 | volume=28 | issue=3 | pages=341–374| doi=10.1111/j.1750-0206.2009.00120.x | ref=none}}