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 ...

With her books slated for the bonfires, Helen Keller confronted German students in an open letter: "History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that ...

It’s a testament to the power of Keller’s ideas that her books were amongst those burned by the Nazi’s. Helen Keller realised ... a whole range of fronts, writing on segregation, women ...