“Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs ... a necessary skill until the 1990s when many people shifted to e-mail and then in the 2000s to texting. By 2010, the Common Core ...

If you are talented at reading cursive handwriting, the National Archives could really use your help with transcribing and organizing many of its handwritten records. The aim of the project is to ...

Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don’t count. At least, that’s what I was taught growing up. (And I’m really not that old ...

The National Archives is actively recruiting people who know how to read cursive. There are millions of historical documents that need to be transcribed. Getting people to volunteer has turned out ...