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

If you are talented at reading cursive handwriting, the National Archives could really use your help with transcribing and ...

Attention! All you older folks (like me) reading this who were taught penmanship in school! The National Archives needs you!!

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

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

It's easy to do for a half hour a day or a week ... is clear that volunteers don’t have to start out knowing cursive, you can learn along the way. “It helps — but it’s not necessary.” ...

It's easy to do for a half hour a day or a week ... A student at Orangethorpe Elementary School practices writing cursive as California grade school students are being required to learn cursive ...

It's easy to do for a half hour a day or a week ... is clear that volunteers don’t have to start out knowing cursive, you can learn along the way. “It helps – but it’s not necessary.” ...

Revolutionary War pension records have a “no cursive required option,” where volunteers can help tag the ones that have already been transcribed so that it is easier to find them. Learning ...

According to Education Week, 24 states in total require cursive writing to be taught in schools for students K-12. That’s fewer than half of what was required 25 to 30 years ago. Meanwhile, some ...