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 ...
Helen Keller was a famous lecturer, author, activist and educator who advocated for underprivileged individuals, such as women, people with disabilities and African Americans. So, it's no wonder that ...
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 ...
When Helen Keller died in 1968 at the age of 87, she was rightly hailed “as a symbol of the indomitable human spirit” – a heroine who overcame blindness and deafness and triumphed in tragedy. Helen ...
There’s a point in William Gibson’s “The Miracle Worker” where Kate Keller commits the ultimate sacrifice of giving up her daughter. Most people know the story of Helen Keller, struck deaf and blind ...
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 ...
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 ...
This short film is an extended look at some of the themes explored in American Masters – Becoming Helen Keller, and aims to provide an updated representation of modern DeafBlind role models today.
For an entrance named after two people who spent their lives proving nothing is impossible, it felt fitting that the ...
A journalist recently sent me a 1947 photograph of Helen Keller with a large dog resting at her feet. He wanted to know if this was her guide dog. It was not, but the handsome Akita was certainly a ...
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