Helen Keller was a voracious reader — despite a mess of competing alphabets and a severe lack of accessible books.

The 20th in a series of articles commemorating Women's History Month by spotlighting a significant speech or testimony delivered by a woman in the U.S. on this date. Helen Keller had spoken to many ...

January is National Braille Literacy Month. Braille (pronounced “brale”) is a way of reading and writing that uses touch, not sight. Letters, numbers and other symbols each have a “code” of up to six ...

The Dot Experience at the American Printing House for the Blind opens in October in Louisville’s Clifton neighborhood.

Helen Keller, the activist, writer and lecturer left blind and deaf by childhood illness, graces the side of a new "Alabama" quarter -- her image stamped alongside her name written in Braille -- ...

Helen Keller Services has named the five recipients of its 2026 AccessAbility Awards, honoring organizations that advance accessibility for people who ...

To understand the people who've profoundly impacted history, we're exploring the books that profoundly impacted them. Here, Dorothy Herrmann, author of Helen Keller: A Life, tells us about the writer ...

New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not include Games-only or Cooking-only subscribers.

Helen Keller had spoken to many state legislatures, but this was her first appearance in Congress. She was there to support a federally financed program to create Braille books for blind adults.