Ben Franklin and Big Data
Historian Caroline Winterer has published this article on Dr. Franklin in the December 2013 issue of Smithsonian. To search the magazine’s site for Franklin, follow this link.
Archive of posts filed under the Franklin – General category.
This is the initial Franklin category; we expect to branch off from this many times.
A Dog Named Ben
Secretary of State John Kerry will be picking up a yellow Labrador retriever puppy to be named Ben in honor of Ben Franklin, who’s known as the “Father of the American Foreign Service” and for whom the State Department’s diplomatic state dining room is named. – See more at boston.com.
Gazettes Uploading
The uploading of scanned copies of our Gazettes is underway. The overview page is under the Articles Wanted menu. A searchable guide to contents of each issue is clearly wanted. There may be an index in the membership somewhere. I put up a link to the first PDF file to reach the website. The scans …
The Way to Wealth – Scholarship
American Literature Research and Analysis Web Site Under the direction of Dr. Jim Wohlpart, the students at Florida Gulf Coast University and the University of South Florida in Fort Myers have created the following Web Sites in order to provide substantial research on and analysis of various literary works. These pages provide: reviews of …
Way to Wealth, and Alphabetical Quotes
openlibrary.org has the full contents of an 1814 publication of Franklin’s Way to Wealth online here, readable as text or PDF. archive.org has the same pamphlet viewable gloriously here, with the bookplate of the Children’s Book Collection of the Library of UCLA and Elvah Karshner viewable inside the front cover. The alphabetical list of quotes starts on …
Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer
The Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, hosts a superb online exhibition called Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer by James N. Green and Peter Stallybrass on their website here. The LCP Home page is at www.librarycompany.org.
The Way to Wealth
There is a nice article about Franklin’s quotes used in The Way to Wealth at a site called Pick The Brain. The author enumerates 78 proverbs from that essay, divided half as Industry and half as Frugality. The Library Company of Philadelphia has a fine online exhibition that discusses this essay here.