The name Helen Keller conjures up, for many people, a deaf-blind-mute girl learning to communicate via sign language. It is a scene straight out of “The Miracle Worker,” the biographical play ...

Newspapers printed stories about her on ... The blind children at Perkins Institute had made a doll for Miss Sullivan to give to Helen Keller. She began her training with that.

When Helen Keller was a child most deaf and blind children were sent to work houses ... It’s an against-all-odds story that tells us that there is no obstacle that can’t be overcome if we ...

Helen Keller was a deafblind author and activist best known for her 1902 autobiography, The Story of My Life. She was involved with the suffrage and labor-rights movements and an advocate for ...