Before Helen Keller became the author of 14 books and an international advocate for the needs of others, she was a young girl trapped in a secret, silent world and unable to speak.

Before Helen Keller became a symbol of hope and possibility, she was a frustrated child unable to communicate — until her teacher, Anne Sullivan, unlocked her world. Their story of struggle, ...

In its 64th year, the annual stage production of William Gibson’s “The Miracle Worker” comes to life on the very soil where the true story unfolded in Tuscumbia more than 130 years ago. While the play ...

This 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 that ...