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 ...

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 ...

Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880, and seemed like a perfectly normal child. However before her second birthday she contracted some kind of mysterious illness which rendered her ...

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 ...

Helen Keller jokes were popular when I was in elementary school. The only one I remember asked, “How did Helen Keller burn her fingers?” The we-thought-clever riposte: “Trying to read a ...

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 ...

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.

Director Carolyn Self and Mary John Alexander, who plays Helen Keller in 'The Miracle Worker,' visited with Greg Screws and ...

According to Helen Selsdon, an archivist for the American Foundation for the Blind, Keller's favorite food was hot dogs. Specifically, she liked to keep things simple, sticking to mustard and ...