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

putting their skills reading old documents to work. A student at Orangethorpe Elementary School practices writing cursive as ...

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

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 ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

With the ability to read and write cursive becoming more rare, the National Archives is looking for some important volunteers ...

(And I’m really not that old, I swear!) Having the exact same ... And generally speaking, writing in cursive is faster than writing in print. And like the Boomers say, cursive looks like a ...

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne ... strange and inventive spellings, old forms of letters (a double S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked like an F) and even ...