Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools.

One consequence of our digital age is a decline in cursive, the flowing style of penmanship once considered a common skill. While plenty of people still sign their name in cursive, being able to ...

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

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If you’re not confident in your cursive deciphering skills, the National Archives has other tasks available, too—such as “tagging” documents that other volunteers have already transcribed.

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WASHINGTON — Reading cursive writing is a skill that could be fading away over time. But if you know how to read cursive, the National Archives could use your help. The U.S. National Archives ...

If you’ve ever had that moment of lament from not getting to a show in time to catch the entire opening act, then you know that feeling I had when The Dip pummeled me with such mid-set regret last ...

The National Archives is recruiting volunteers to help transcribe millions of handwritten documents, many in cursive, spanning over 200 years. These records, ranging from Revolutionary War pensions to ...

If you're one of the shrinking amount of Americans who can read cursive, the National Park Service and the National Archives could use your skills. The loops, swoops, and wiggles of what was once the ...

These documents include Revolutionary War pension records. People interested in participating can sign up on the National Archives website. If you have expertise in reading cursive, then there’s an ...