"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, ...

The National Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe more than 200 years worth of documents. You can help, even if you can't read cursive.

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 ...

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 ...