The Franklin Papers archive External at the American Philosophical Society constitutes some 60 percent of surviving Benjamin Franklin papers. See also an online collection of Franklin images External.

A documentary history of Franklin's life created by J.A. Leo Lemay, former Professor of Colonial American Literature at the University of Delaware (now available as a web archive) provides a detailed year-by-year chronology broken down into separate eras of Franklin's career.

A companion web site to the PBS documentary Benjamin Franklin, this site contains biographical information, an interactive timeline, and a teacher's guide with lesson plans.

The Benjamin Franklin House, located in London, is the world's only surviving Franklin home. For nearly sixteen years between 1757 and 1775, Franklin lived in this house.

The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary is a private, non-profit alliance established to mark the three-hundred-year anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth (1706-2006). This site contains an interactive exhibit titled Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, educational resources for teachers and students, a timeline, trivia, essays, an annotated list of Franklin-related web sites, and a bibliography for adults and young readers. Also includes the Frankliniana Database, an electronic catalog of known surviving objects with a close association to Benjamin Franklin.

Designed by the Independence Hall Association, this site includes biographical information, primary source material, a timeline, a compilation of quotations, interactive games, images, streaming videos, and the complete text of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Also includes Temple's Diary, a multi-part fictional narrative for kids written in the voice of Franklin's grandson.

This exhibit uses the records of the Mid Atlantic Region to uncover Benjamin Franklin's legacy with regard to the creation and operation of the Federal government from its inception through the Civil War.

The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has entered into a cooperative agreement with The University of Virginia Press to create this site and make freely available online the historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America. This site contains the first 39 volumes of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin External. The entire edition is projected to reach 47 volumes.

An online exhibit from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, available here as a web archive.

The official website of the authoritative edition of Benjamin Franklin’s Papers, from Yale University. Including a digital edition External of the papers.