Chaplin JE. Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit. New York: Simon & Schuster; 2012.

Franklin B. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Norton Critical Edition. (Chaplin J). New York: W. W. Norton; 2012.

Chaplin J. Benjamin Franklin’s Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution; 2009. Publisher's Version

Chaplin J. The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius. New York: Basic Books; 2006. Publisher's Version

Chaplin J. Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 2001. Publisher's Version

Chaplin J. An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815. Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture; 1993. Publisher's Version