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

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking ...

The National Archives' Citizen Archivist program is recruiting volunteers to help transcribe thousands of documents in its ...

Being able to read the longhand script is a huge help because so many of the documents are written using it. “It’s not just a matter of whether you learned cursive in school, it’s how much ...

Maybe it was the fact that in the States, there’s no real rite of passage attached to learning to write in either script or cursive, except that you escaped the bad marks in the penmanship ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

Being able to read the longhand script is a huge help because so many of the documents are written using it. “It’s not just a matter of whether you learned cursive in school, it’s how much ...