National Handwriting Day, celebrated on January 23rd, honors the artistry and personal touch of handwriting. Established in ...

Then, as early as the 1st century CE, minuscule began to emerge: smaller, rounder letters that required fewer strokes. You ...

The air of Sterling smells of time — of aged paper and polished wood, of countless hands brushing over banisters and spines.

You don’t have to buy a lottery ticket to win a million dollars thanks to an offer from southern India's Tamil Nadu state, but there is a catch: you need to be able to decipher 5,300-year-old writing.

The study ricocheted around the world. Almost 200 news stories promoted the idea that we remember things better when we write them down by hand instead of typing. It confirmed what many of us ...

It doesn’t get more American than this,” said Marc Zell, chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel (ROI) as he offered a ...

Several new Norway-themed items have arrived at the Norway pavilion, featuring Mickey, Minnie, and Spaceship Earth under the ...

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

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

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Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the ... a fountain pen before transferring it to a computer. Writing with a fountain pen demands mindfulness.

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 ...