"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, ...

“It makes research harder and take longer, because sometimes I have to go and look up the cursive alphabet, lowercase and uppercase, and try to figure out what I’m looking at. If you just ...

Musicians tend to soften with age. It's the natural way of things. Bands usually start as collectives of friends with fires ...

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 ... S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked like an F) and even children’s doodles over top. And many obsolete terms ...

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe ...

The federal organization tasked with archiving the country’s most precious records and documents is currently looking for volunteers who can read the cursive writing of over 200 years' worth of ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word ... old forms of letters (a double S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked like an F) and even children’s doodles over top.

WASHINGTON — Reading cursive writing is a skill that could be fading away over time. But if you know how to read cursive, the National Archives could use your help. The U.S. National Archives ...