To date, more than 4,000 Revolutionary War Pension Project volunteers have typed up the content of over 80,000 pages of ...
Schoolchildren were once taught impeccable copperplate handwriting ... “cursive was a coming-of-age part of literacy in the 1980s. We learned cursive and then we could write like adults wrote ...
Discover the importance of preserving cursive handwriting in the digital age. Learn how the National Archives is taking action to make historical documents accessible.
The National Archives' Citizen Archivist program is recruiting volunteers to help transcribe thousands of documents in its ...
Jan. 23, is the birthday of John Hancock — the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence — and in a nod to his place in history, it’s also National Handwriting Day. In 2010, a ...
A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is ...