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Online Archives in a Digitized World

Have you ever done research in an archive? Maybe for a school project, or just researching a topic of personal...

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...

The American Foundation for the Blind Archive, housed at APH since 2020, never fails to provide surprises. This September 2021...

You know those history research shows that trace your family’s history? I love shows like that, and they’re a great...

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

Photo: Featured in The Bald Soprano are Braille Readers Theater regulars, clockwise from bottom left, Barbara Henning, BT Kimbrough, Terrie...

Have you ever discovered a place in your hometown that you had never heard of before? A few months into...

I have received some very interesting research questions about Helen Keller during my first year as Archivist in the AFB...

You’re not going to believe this, but with centuries of potential titles to choose from, all three of the first...

The Hall of Fame is dedicated to preserving the tradition of excellence manifested by specific individuals through the history of...

Note to the reader: this blog contains outdated historical terms for schools for the blind which are now deemed offensive....

When Helen Keller celebrated her fourteenth birthday at the home of Alexander Graham Bell on June 27, 1894, she received...

If you’re old enough to remember begging your mom to buy breakfast cereal so that you could get the phonograph...