Most adults are so familiar with the Helen Keller story that we forget how difficult it is to tell. How can readers who rely on their senses of sight and hearing imagine being bereft of both from the ...

To understand the people who've profoundly impacted history, we're exploring the books that profoundly impacted them. Here, Dorothy Herrmann, author of Helen Keller: A Life, tells us about the writer ...

Though deaf and blind, she learned to speak several languages, authored several books, and starred as herself in the 1919 film “Deliverance,” which is about her challenging personal journey to a ...

Helen Keller had spoken to many state legislatures, but this was her first appearance in Congress. She was there to support a federally financed program to create Braille books for blind adults.