Helen Keller, Baby Bollinger, and the Black Stork

A portrait in American Eugenics and the duality of human nature

Christina Dalcher

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Helen Keller with a magnolia, circa 1920 (Los Angeles Times, public domain)

NNone of us is wholly good or wholly evil. We are the product of thousands of inputs: culture, timeframe, our choices, parents, peers, diet, education, intellectual capacity, and so much more. It’s even trickier when we try to examine historical figures through a contemporary…

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Christina Dalcher

Author of VOX & MASTER CLASS, (Berkley/Penguin Random House). Doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University. www.christinadalcher.com