The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive.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.

At their essence, the tangibility of cards, of letters, of love letters, is inseparable from their context of emotional vulnerability and the time spent in their production.

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