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

"[Cursive is] incredibly important for brain development. The continuous movement [of the hand] is important as opposed to the stop and start of standard print. It’s encouraged in dyslexia ...

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 ...

Although cursive remains an important skill for those keeping the history of the U.S., it's fallen out of favor as block writing, similar to the print that ... people lack practice in reading ...