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The State Board of Education in Texas voted on Friday to eliminate several historical figures, including Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller, from the state’s social studies curriculum. Barbara Cargill, a Texas Republican and member of the board, told The Dallas Morning News that "the recommendation to eliminate Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton was made by [Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills] work groups.” “However the board did vote to agree with the work groups' recommendations,” Cargill pointed out. "In speaking to teachers and testifiers, they did not mention these specific deletions."

Working with her instructor, the American author and political activist learned to talk despite being deaf and blind Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video/rare-footage-of-helen-keller-speaking.html#ixzz2V19QYqEm

  In what’s becoming the norm, another foreign company has blundered to new lows in a branding  campaign that defies logic.Fashion company, Xiamen Jinzhi Industry Development Co. Ltd., has launched a new line of sunglasses called Helen Keller.The story reports that the company intended to honor her “philanthropist spirit,” but it just comes across as crass.And the slogan, “You see the world, the world sees you,” is another gem of marketing genius.

'Tomorrow's Children' (1934) which was called 'The Unborn' in the UK This was a very controversial film in its day. It was made during the height of the eugenics movement and considered subversive at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSqUnqoHRFs Part I of 6

Last Wednesday, to great applause and accolades from the politicians and dignitaries in attendance, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol. “The story of Helen Keller inspires us all,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi added that: “Helen Keller ignited a century marked by progress for people with disabilities.” Most of us think we know her story: Born in 1880, Helen Keller lost her eyesight and hearing before the age of two after contracting an illness. Shut off from the world because of her disabilities and unable to communicate even with...

I was surfing the cable channels one afternoon when I landed on an old black and white movie about a young man in his late twenties who agreed to go out on a blind date. The guy was very handsome and his prospective date was top model material. Their date started with a walk on the beach, followed by a formal diner, and then a movie. At the end of the first evening he dropped her off at her place and went home. A few days later they would repeat the process. On the third date they retreated to her...

BOSTON — Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod.. The photograph, shot in July 1888 in Brewster, shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside in a light-colored dress, holding Sullivan's hand and cradling one of her beloved dolls. Experts on Keller's life believe it could be the earliest photo of the two women together and the only one showing the blind and deaf child with a doll — the first word Sullivan spelled for Keller after they met in 1887 — according...

TUSCUMBIA, ALA. - It’s impossible to miss the ubiquitous brown signs for Ivy Green, the birthplace of Helen Keller. She’s the pride of this northern Alabama town. People here celebrate her life with an annual festival and performances of the play The Miracle Worker, and her childhood home is like a shrine. Visitors learn that her father was a captain in the Confederacy. They see the water pump where the blind and deaf child made the connection that things have names, with teacher Anne Sullivan spelling w-a-t-e-r into her hand. Photos of the adult Helen with U.S. presidents hang in...

Women see scarlet, men see red Jennifer Viegas Discovery News Wednesday, 4 August 2004 The world may appear a more colourful place to women, according to a new study that finds many women perceive a greater range of colours than men, particularly shades of red. The U.S. study, which analysed DNA from populations around the world, is published in the September issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics. How men and women see the world appears to relate to evolution and how our early ancestors found food. Men were likely to have been surveying the landscape for prey to...

On the 100th anniversary of its publication, Helen Keller's "The Story of My Life" would appear to be the book that has everything: a university tribute, a New Yorker article, and a deluxe Web edition, slated to go online this fall. In honor of the big event, two handsome new "restored" print editions, each at least 400 pages long, are duking it out on bookstore shelves. And yet something is missing as Keller's most famous book embarks on its second century. A best seller in its day and a classroom staple well into the 1970s, "The Story of My Life"...