The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Resources
Websites
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This project at the Franklin & Marshall College celebrates 300 years of Franklin's life and work.
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This site's run by and for middle school students, and "remixes" our understanding of Franklin.
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Franklin's works brought to you by the Library of Congress.
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This companion site to the PBS mini-series offers extra fun facts and info.
Movie and TV Productions
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A mini-series from 2002 that won an Emmy for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special.
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This four-part mini-series showed four actors as Franklin and won five Emmys.
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Franklin shows up as a character played by Howard Da Silva in this film based on the musical.
Historical Documents
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The original, French title page of the Autobiography.
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See an original title page of the English version.
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Read a digital copy of the 1869 published version.
Audio
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An special celebrating Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday
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Apparently, Franklin was really into music. As part of NPR's celebration of Franklin's birthday, they put together a collection of some of the music from Franklin's time.
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Listen to an audio book version of the Autobiography here (LibriVox).
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From NPR: "In his time, Ben Franklin was one of the world's most famous scientists. But was his famous kite experiment a hoax? In this special Fourth of July edition of Talk of the nation/Science Friday, we'll take a closer look at the life of founding father and scientist Benjamin Franklin, with Nobel laureate Dudley Herschbach."
Images
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Curious to see what Franklin looked like? Check this out.
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This painting by Hobens shows another side of Franklin.