"I'm a history major," said Barnes. "One of the times it really got to me was when I was looking through an old arrest report ...

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 ...

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

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

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

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life. In the past, most American students began learning to write in cursive in third grade, making it a rite of passage, said Jaime ...

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. In the past, ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WVII) -- A Maine bill looks to bring back a classroom requirement from years past: learning how to write in cursive. The bill was submitted by Representative Joseph Underwood ...

Revolutionary War pension records have a “no cursive required option,” where volunteers can help tag the ones that have already been transcribed so that it is easier to find them. Learning ...

Meanwhile, some states like Maine and Montana leave it up to the individual school districts to decide whether to require students to learn cursive. For those interested in helping the National ...