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Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives’ digital catalog more accessible Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The National ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S.

Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations. These self-proclaimed codebreakers ...

American’s skill with this connected form of script has been slowly waning for decades. Schoolchildren were once taught impeccable copperplate handwriting and penmanship was something they were graded ...