Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, ...
Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...
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 ...
To date, more than 4,000 Revolutionary War Pension Project volunteers have typed up the content of over 80,000 pages of ...
The National Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe more than 200 years worth of documents. You can help, even if ...
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 ...