A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is looking for volunteers to help decipher and digitize them.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of ...

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

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

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

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

In the past, most American students began learning to write in cursive in third grade ... battle to become comfortable with reading and writing the conjoined script. And it opens up access ...

There is also some evidence that learning cursive benefits the brain. “More and more neuroscience research is supporting the idea that writing out letters in cursive, especially in comparison to ...