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 ...

This accounting log details financial losses the East India Company experienced in 1773 from shipments sent to Boston, Charleston, New York and Philadelphia. SIMON: ...Our theme music. If you can read ...

Imagine a friend of yours just woke up from a 15-year coma. They ask you to catch them up on politics, and once you get past the most obvious thing — “Wait, who is the president?” — you ...

In today’s time, we typically write in print format, but I remember a time when writing in cursive was a requirement. Cursive handwriting has long been cherished as a hallmark of eloquence and ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

On the occasion of America’s quarter millennium, the National Archives has launched a project inviting volunteers to help transcribe and digitize historical documents written in cursive.

One consequence of our digital age is a decline in cursive, the flowing style of penmanship once considered a common skill. While plenty of people still sign their name in cursive, being able to ...

In 2010, the newly established Common Core State Standards program, which outlines skills and knowledge students should acquire between kindergarten and high school, did not include cursive in its ...