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

The National Archives' Citizen Archivist program is recruiting volunteers to help transcribe thousands of documents in its ...

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 ...

To date, more than 4,000 Revolutionary War Pension Project volunteers have typed up the content of over 80,000 pages of ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

If you can read cursive ... to find something so old about one of their relatives. She says she once prided herself on her perfect penmanship but today says her handwriting is “atrocious.” ...