Our nation’s three most important and revered documents are enclosed in titanium display cases in the rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and they rest […] ...

Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years, cursive ...

The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As we celebrate Independence Day, the National Archives in Washington, D.C. is letting the public view ...

Last week, the Pennsylvania House passed a bill that would require cursive handwriting to be taught in all public and private ...

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C. She is part of the team that coordinates the more than 5,000 Citizen ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

SIMON: That’s Nancy Sullivan from the National Archives. She works with the Citizen Archivist program. For the last couple of years, she and Suzanne Isaacs have been leading thousands of volunteers in ...

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.