"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 ...

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

In the 5th grade, both the letter case writing and the cursive writing ... Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said.

A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is looking for volunteers to help decipher and digitize them.

We learned cursive and then we could write like adults wrote,” she ... strange and inventive spellings, old forms of letters (a double S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked ...

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential ... strange and inventive spellings, old forms of letters (a double S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked like an F) and ...

We learned cursive and then we could write like adults wrote,” she ... strange and inventive spellings, old forms of letters (a double S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked ...

History nerds, have we got a volunteer gig for you—especially if you're well versed in cursive writing. The National Archives ...

We learned cursive and then we could write like adults wrote,” she said ... strange and inventive spellings, old forms of letters (a double S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked like an F) ...