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

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

National Handwriting Day, celebrated on January 23rd, honors the artistry and personal touch of handwriting. Established in ...

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

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The study ricocheted around the world. Almost 200 news stories promoted the idea that we remember things better when we write them down by hand instead of typing. It confirmed what many of us ...

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Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

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 is currently looking for volunteers who have the ability to read cursive writing to help them ...

Having grown up with smart devices, Gen Z hardly ever writes by hand, and this change in communication has a profound ...