The National Archives is looking for volunteers with the “superpower” of reading cursive to transcribe some 2 million pages ...

I preach to my kids to expand their horizons and do things outside of their comfort zones, yet I have been happy behind a computer keyboard tapping out my thoughts and telling others’ stories for ...

and many were written before typewriters or other mechanical writing tools were developed and became widely available. Because of this, they were written by hand, in cursive. As fewer people ...

It's useless and won't help a person survive in the real world. Of course school is full of useless study . . . But in the ...

If you’re one of the dwindling number who can decipher this type of writing, the National Archives is hoping you have some free time—or a lot of it—to volunteer your skills. In collaboration with the ...

That led to a pushback and today at least 14 states require that cursive handwriting be taught, including California in 2023. But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life.