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

The National Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe more than 200 years worth of documents. You can help, even if ...

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

To date, more than 4,000 Revolutionary War Pension Project volunteers have typed up the content of over 80,000 pages of ...

The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe more than 200 years worth of hand-written historical ... that writing out letters in cursive ...

The law’s author said it was so students could read primary source historical ... at Abigail Adams' letters to her husband (President John Adams) and his responses, the cursive is an art form ...

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.

Since many younger people can't, there is a need for folks who can read cursive to help transcribe the many documents held by the National Archive.

Jan. 23, is the birthday of John Hancock — the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence — and in a nod to his place in history, it’s also National Handwriting Day. In 2010, a ...