If you are talented at reading cursive handwriting, the National Archives could really use your help with transcribing and ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Handwriting (symbols) was first used in 3100 BC for list making. It was a counting of beer rations for workers.

The creator of a pen pal project that has drawn tens of thousands of participants across the globe chats about her new book, ...

As her many local admirers gather to eulogize her on Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. at Meadows Funeral Home in Monroe, Georgia, for a ...

There was something thrilling about getting a personal letter, particularly written in someone’s actual hand. Coffee stains, ...

“A classical education is really a wonderful education for children,” Logsdail told the Register. “But even more important, ...

The air of Sterling smells of time — of aged paper and polished wood, of countless hands brushing over banisters and spines.

Marlene Poole White was raised by parents who defied prejudices associated with being deaf. White became one of the state's greatest track runners.