Land titles in the archive hadn’t been indexed or clearly labeled and were handwritten in Spencerian script, a cursive style from the 1800s. To sort through them, Pratheek Rebala, a computational ...

As the U.S. educational system developed, new types of cursive writing emerged. One, Spencerian script, was inspired by American landscapes and became a widespread—and uniquely American—school ...

“Writing is the way we learn what we’re thinking… The handwriting, the sequencing of the strokes, engages the thinking part of the mind.” As of 2025, there are 24 states that require cursive lessons, ...