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 ...

"I'm a history major," said Barnes. "One of the times it really got to me was when I was looking through an old arrest report ...

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

Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, ...

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

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like ... longer required handwriting on the presumption that most of the writing students would do would be on computers.

While plenty of people still sign their name in cursive, being able to read or write it is a different story. If you’re one of the dwindling number who can decipher this type of writing ...

There is also some evidence that learning cursive benefits the brain. “More and more neuroscience research is supporting the idea that writing out letters in cursive, especially in comparison to ...

WASHINGTON — Reading cursive writing ... learning the old-fashioned writing style, tend to use it only for signing their name -- meaning most people lack practice in reading and deciphering ...

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

It’s an uphill – but by no means impossible – battle to become comfortable with reading and writing the conjoined script. And it opens up access to a wealth of older documents. Cursive is ...

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 ...