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• Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
• Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
• Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
• Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
• Muir, John, 1838-1914
• Sinsheimer, Robert
• Stever, H. Guyford
• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

• Biographical Memoirs (full serial archives)
• An Economic Analysis of the Market for Scientists and Engineers (c1958), by Armen A. Alchian, Kenneth J. Arrow, and William M. Capron (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Security, Loyalty, and Science (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c1950), by Walter Gellhorn (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• In War and Peace: My Life in Science and Technology (2002), by H. Guyford Stever (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin (multiple editions)
• Cosmic Heretics: A Personal History of Attempts to Establish and Resist Theories of Quantavolution and Catastrophe in the Natural and Human Sciences, 1962-1983, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker, to the Secretary of State, With His Answer (Philadelphia: D. Lawrence, 1792), by Benjamin Banneker, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson
  • HTML at UMD
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Rachel Carson: Pen Against Poison (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Bruce Odessey (PDF at usembassy.gov)

• My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir
  • HTML at Sierra Club
  • page images at loc.gov
• Our Friend John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, by John Muir
  • illustrated HTML at Sierra Club
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
• Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: W. Scott, 1896), by Henry S. Salt
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Sierra Club)

• American Science Manpower (full serial archives)

• The Root of Roots, or How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Richard Price and Sally Price (PDF files with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• Climbing the Ladder: An Update on the Status of Doctoral Women Scientists and Engineers (1983), by National Research Council Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel (page images with commentary at NAP)
• To Recruit and Advance: Women Students and Faculty in U.S. Science and Engineering (2006), by National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Guide to Recruiting and Advancing Women Scientists and Engineers in Academia (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Women Scientists and Engineers Employed in Industry: Why So Few? (1994), by National Research Council Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Educating Scientists and Engineers: Grade School to Grad School (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Improving the Recruitment, Retention, and Utilization of Federal Scientists and Engineers (1993), ed. by Alan K. Campbell, Stephen J. Lukasik, and Michael G. H. McGeary (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Recruitment, Retention, and Utilization of Federal Scientists and Engineers (1990), ed. by Alan K. Campbell and Linda S. Dix (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Demographic Trends and the Scientific and Engineering Workforce (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Elementary and Secondary Education for Science and Engineering (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Preparing for Science and Engineering Careers: Field Level Profiles (OTA staff paper; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF with imperfect OCR-derived images at unt.edu)

• John James Audubon, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)

• John Burroughs, Boy and Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1920), by Clara Barrus (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)
• Our Friend John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus (Gutenberg text)

• Rachel Carson: Pen Against Poison (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Bruce Odessey (PDF at usembassy.gov)

• Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin (multiple editions)
• The Autobiography and Other Writings, by Benjamin Franklin (HTML at Bibliomania)
• Benjamin Franklin, Printer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., for the Associated advertising clubs of the world, 1917), by John Clyde Oswald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed: A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on His Own Writings (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by William Cabell Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Four American Leaders (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1906), by Charles William Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Franklin and the University; Frankliniana in the University Library (reprinted from the "Alumni Register" of the University of Pennsylvania, 1906), by J. G. Rosengarten and Morris Jastrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin, by William M. Thayer (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of Benjamin Franklin, by M. L. Weems (frame-dependent page images at antiquebooks.net)
• Life of Benjamin Franklin: A Continuation of Franklin's Autobiography, by Jared Sparks (HTML at ushistory.org)
• Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania (Washington: GPO, 1893), ed. by Francis Newton Thorpe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution, by Bruce E. Johansen (HTML at ratical.org)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Six Historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant, the Fathers and Saviors of Our Republic, Freethinkers (New York: Truth Seeker Co., ca. 1906), by John E. Remsburg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Letters to a Friend, by John Muir (HTML at Sierra Club)
• My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir
  • HTML at Sierra Club
  • page images at loc.gov
• Stickeen, by John Muir (HTML at Sierra Club)

• The Strands of a Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Robert Sinsheimer (HTML at UC Press)

• In War and Peace: My Life in Science and Technology (2002), by H. Guyford Stever (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Genius Ignored: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Bach, Thoreau, Melville, Van Gogh, Nabokov, and Casablanca (last revised 2018), by Lucius Furius (illustrated HTML at humanist-art.org)
• Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: W. Scott, 1896), by Henry S. Salt
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives (Gutenberg text)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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