The National Archives is looking for volunteers with the “superpower” of reading cursive to transcribe some 2 million pages ...

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

I preach to my kids to expand their horizons and do things outside of their comfort zones, yet I have been happy behind a computer keyboard tapping out my thoughts and telling others’ stories for ...

We learned cursive and then we could write like adults wrote,” she said ... strange and inventive spellings, old forms of ...

Jan. 23, is the birthday of John Hancock — the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence — and in a nod to his place in history, it’s also National Handwriting Day. In 2010, a ...

putting their skills reading old documents to work. For her generation, “cursive was a coming-of-age part of literacy in the 1980s. We learned cursive and then we could write like adults wrote ...

In the 5th grade, both the letter case writing and the cursive writing ... Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said.

We learned cursive and then we could write like adults wrote,” she ... strange and inventive spellings, old forms of letters (a double S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked ...