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

The National Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe more than 200 years worth of documents. You can help, even if ...

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

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

Jan. 23, is the birthday of John Hancock — the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence — and in a nod to his place in history, it’s also National Handwriting Day. In 2010, a ...

With the ability to read and write cursive becoming more rare, the National Archives is looking for some important volunteers ...

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne ... strange and inventive spellings, old forms of letters (a double S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked like an F) and even ...

“If you look at Abigail Adams' letters to her husband (President John Adams) and his responses, the cursive is an art form, it’s so uniform,” she said. AI is starting to be able to read ...

tend to use it only for signing their name -- meaning most people lack practice in reading and deciphering the often dense lettering used in cursive writings. “It’s not just a matter of ...