The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive. This citizen-led initiative makes American history more accessible to researchers and genealogists.

Do you remember the last time you write in cursive? Do you still know how to read it? If so, the National Archives are ...

To engage citizen volunteers and make the American story more accessible, the National Archives is enlisting everyone it can in transcribing vast Revolutionary War pension files. (This also caught the ...

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

A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is ...

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

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

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