Do you remember the last time you wrote in cursive? Do you still know how to read it? If so, the National Archives is looking ...

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

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

The National Archives' Citizen Archivist program is recruiting volunteers to help transcribe thousands of documents in its ...

The National Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe more than 200 years worth of documents. You can help, even if ...

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.

Schoolchildren were once taught impeccable copperplate handwriting and penmanship ... putting their skills reading old documents to work. For her generation, “cursive was a coming-of-age part ...

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 ...

In fact, only half of the states in the U.S. require cursive writing to be taught in school now. Most people, even after learning the old-fashioned writing style, tend to use it only for signing ...