Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years, cursive ...

The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.

The National Archives needs your help transcribing UFO and JFK files If you can type, you can turn these scanned history documents into text. By Justin Pot Published Apr 25, 2025 8:00 AM EDT ...

That's why the National Archives need help from nearly 5,000 volunteers who can read historical documents written in cursive so they can transcribe nearly 300 million digitized objects within ...

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C. She is part of the team that coordinates the more than 5,000 Citizen ...

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 ...

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

A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is looking for volunteers to help decipher and digitize them.

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C., told USA Today.

Raise your hand if you’re one of the remaining few who can still read cursive! It’s a dying art in the age of the keyboard, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) needs ...

Get a read on this. The National Archives is seeking volunteers who can read cursive to help transcribe more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog, saying the skill is a “superpower.” ...

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