The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

With the ability to read and write cursive becoming more rare, the National Archives is looking for some important volunteers ...

People interested in participating can sign up on the National Archives website. If you have expertise in reading cursive, ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from ...

It's easy to do for a half hour a day or a week.” Although cursive remains an important skill for those keeping the history of the U.S., it's fallen out of favor as block writing, similar to the ...

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne ... handwriting on the presumption that most of the writing students would do would be on computers. That led to a pushback and today at least ...