helen keller

Embarking on an Educational Journey: How Anne Sullivan Taught Helen Keller

From childhood and beyond, Helen’s teacher, Anne Sullivan, aided in her pupil’s pursuit to understand the world. Anne utilized protactile...

Around the corner from the heart of braille production and product storage, sits a room tucked against the back wall...

The Dot Experience team celebrated one of the world’s biggest change makers—Helen Keller during a recent Connect the Dots event,...

What is The Dot Experience? The Dot Experience is APH’s re-imagined museum set to open in 2026. Designed with an...

APH’s vision since 1858 is an accessible world, with opportunity for everyone. APH empowers people who are blind or low...

The Helen Keller Archive is filled with incredible artifacts that typically could not be found in most folks’ homes. There...

One of my favorite things about browsing through the AFB Helen Keller Archives here at APH—which we are doing right...

Yes, it is good to be home now with the daffodils and hyacinths, the lawn thick with soft young blades...

In 1904, the Ladies Home Journal published a piece by Helen Keller titled, “As the Blind See the Yuletide.” For...

Even a simple inquiry about one item in an archive can have a surprising number of highs, lows, twists, and...

They say the best advice to young writers is to write about what you know. So rather than come up...

As students return to school and the summer winds down, here in the museum we are wrapping up another successful...

Time capsules have long been an intriguing way for people to communicate through the ages, be they historians or grade...

Burned manuscript recovered from the wreckage of Arcan Ridge, 1946. Photo AFB Helen Keller Archive As we get ready...

Photo caption: Left to Right, Polly Thomson, Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller, Charlie Chaplin. Photo AFB Helen Keller Archive. When...