Born in 1880, Helen Keller was a healthy baby girl. Her parents had been members of the Alabama aristocracy, but since lost status after the Civil War. Her father, Arthur Keller, was the editor of ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 18.—This was Helen Keller day at the fair, and when she arrived at the Hall of Congresses, where the exercises were held, the crowd was so dense that every aisle, window ...

For the record, though Keller was a true-blue socialist, she was not a member of the Communist Party. When she was sixteen, in 1896, she was catapulted to national fame, writes Keith Rosenthal for ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – Mark Twain once said the two most interesting characters of the 19 th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller, but a series of TikTok-based conspiracy theories have young people ...

Keller, born in 1880, was left deaf and blind by an illness in her infancy. Despite this seemingly insurmountable challenge, she went on to become an author, lecturer, and political activist.

Helen Keller was a social activist and suffragist, lending her name to the labor movement and the women's movement. "This inferiority of woman is man-made," she said in a speech in 1916.