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

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 ...

as cursive writing was once called, according to thehenryford website's article on Handwriting in America. Want to read the Declaration of Independence in its original format? It's written in cursive.

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

Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools.

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

A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is ...

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

It's useless and won't help a person survive in the real world. Of course school is full of useless study . . . But in the ...