Helen Keller was born in 1880, just over 50 years after Louis Braille published his eponymous writing system. Braille, who was three when an accident in his father’s workshop left him blind, had ...

Helen Keller was no different, throwing things and eating from others' plates to get her way. It's a common misconception that her famed tutor, Anne Sullivan, swooped in to save the day.

In 1954, Keller appeared in the film documentary “Helen Keller: In Her Story.” ... In the film, Keller is seen typing on a Braille typewriter and doing chores around her home.

Dorothy Herrmann, author of Helen Keller: A Life, tells us about the writer and activist’s passion for philosophy, love of Walt Whitman, and devotion to the work of a Swedish theologian.

HELEN KELLER SENDS HERS The Braille and New York Point Systems in Question, and Each Has Its Advocates. Share full article. March 25, 1909. ...

Keller used the braille typewriter to write her first autobiography, The Story of My Life, which she dedicated to him, writing, “To Alexander Graham Bell, who has taught the deaf to speak and ...

Helen Keller refused to have anything to do with it; the Queen was hurt, and never wrote to her again. ... both by palm-manual and Braille raised type, and could read and write. By now, ...