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

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

Then, as early as the 1st century CE, minuscule began to emerge: smaller, rounder letters that required fewer strokes. You ...

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Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking ...

What you see pictured is not too hard to figure out: a toddler’s spoon for eating all that yummy Gerber pureed squash. So, ...