(Reuters) - Workers on Tuesday were cutting down a popular 200-year-old oak tree at the Alabama childhood home of Helen Keller, the deaf and blind writer who as a young girl was famously rescued from ...

American Masters: Becoming Helen Keller examines one of the 20 th century’s human rights pioneers in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The new documentary rediscovers the ...

Rock 'n' roll lovers on a musical mecca throughout the South are likely, during their travels, to make a stop at the famed recording studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. But just a few miles away in the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – 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 ...

This week’s Smithsonian Snapshot marks the June 27, 1880, birthday of Helen Keller, a prominent 20th-century advocate for women’s suffrage and workers’ rights. As a child, Keller contracted an illness ...

Without question, one of the major events of the year 1904, at least as far as the general public was concerned, was the graduation of Helen Adams Keller from Radcliffe College. A few doctors and ...

Rosa Parks and Helen Keller Statues Unveiled at the Alabama Capitol MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller, pivotal figures who fought for justice and inspired change across ...

Opera Birmingham, Alabama’s largest professional opera company, has announced the creation of a new opera about the life of deaf and blind author and activist, Helen Keller. “Touch,” set to premiere ...

Editor’s note: This article by Des Moines Register reporter Harlan S. Miller was originally published on Jan. 2, 1922. Helen Keller was in Des Moines for a week of stage performances at the Orpheum ...