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

Volunteers can help with everything from pension records, field notes made by geographers working on the Mason-Dixon line ... the idea that writing out letters in cursive, especially in comparison ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive ...

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 ...