If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S.

To date, more than 4,000 Revolutionary War Pension Project volunteers have typed up the content of over 80,000 pages of ...

Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools.

Being able to read the longhand script is a huge help because ... putting their skills reading old documents to work. For her generation, “cursive was a coming-of-age part of literacy in the ...

Still, handwriting continued to be considered ... Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said. The Archives' Isaacs is clear that volunteers don’t have ...

As she works, she imagines how much it will mean to families to find something so old about one of their relatives. She says she once prided herself on her perfect penmanship but today says her ...