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

Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools.

It's not the first time a Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed legislation that would mandate that cursive be taught in elementary schools.

The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive. This citizen-led initiative makes American history more accessible to researchers and genealogists.

Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, ...

a law mandating cursive instruction took effect in January 2024. “For some students, it’s a great alternative to printing, and it helps them be more accurate and more careful with the writing ...

Still, handwriting continued to be considered ... Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said. The Archive’s Isaacs is clear that volunteers don’t have ...

Schoolchildren were once taught impeccable copperplate handwriting and penmanship ... putting their skills reading old documents to work. For her generation, “cursive was a coming-of-age part ...