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

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

In our fast-paced digital age, handwriting—a skill refined over 5,500 years of human history—is increasingly becoming a lost ...

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

Sometimes, though, the oldest writing is the easiest to read, said Cantrell. “If you look at Abigail Adams' letters to her husband (President John Adams) and his responses, the cursive is an art ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives’ digital catalog more accessible Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The National ...

A student at Orangethorpe Elementary School practices writing cursive as California grade school students are being required to ... a genealogical nonprofit operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Also read: Is cursive a dying art? If passed, it would mandate that cursive writing is taught in all Maine elementary schools. Underwood says he was approached by a constituent with the proposal ...

Cursive writing is traced back to ancient Roman scribes ... For those interested in helping the National Archives, people can register for a free account online with the National Archives and click on ...