helen keller

Introduction to The Dot Experience

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...

In August of 2023, the AFB Helen Keller Archive received an extraordinary message; the grandchildren of someone who seemed to...

This year’s meeting of the Society of American Archivists was in Washington DC, which allowed me the chance to make...

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

Entire books and websites have been devoted to quotes by Helen Keller. Often the quotes are brief, pleasant, and even...

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...

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