The French Tricolor and Britain’s Union flag hang from the standards near Windsor Castle. The carriages are primed, the ...

Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

As the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, it was clear to Elizabeth from very early on that women ...

Today in History for June 27: ...

In her 1903 autobiography, “The Story of My Life,” Keller wrote movingly of her love of the Bible. “ [H]ow shall I speak of the glories I have since discovered in the Bible?” she wrote.

Helen Adams Keller was an intelligent child who began speaking words like “wa-wa” (water) and taking her first steps as an infant. But when she was 19 months old, she contracted a near-fatal ...

A Profile, from 1930: Keller was convinced that what she had done, others could do, Robert M. Coates writes—her struggle had been in combating the world’s refusal to regard her as a normal ...

Helen Keller had been both blind and deaf since childhood, but that didn't stop her from becoming an author and activist later in life. It also didn't stop her from flying a plane.

Helen Keller was 18 months old when she lost her ability to see and hear because of a high fever. Years later, she wrote that “there is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.” ...

Keller as a child, holding a book and reading in braille with one hand, and signing with the other hand as she read. Helen’s IQ showed she was genius. Two of her dear friends were Alexander ...