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.

Do you want something challenging to tackle? Can you read cursive handwriting? If so, the National Archives and the National ...

Then, as early as the 1st century CE, minuscule began to emerge: smaller, rounder letters that required fewer strokes. You ...

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 ...

The Morning Oregonian of Jan. 6, 1913, had an eye-popping headline, “Bark’s Crew Cheer in Face of Death.” The headline also noted, in a classic understatement, “experience is harrowing.” ...

Every January, the first tuna auction of the year in Japan draws a large crowd, and this year’s event, held at the crack of dawn at Tokyo’s popular Toyosu fish market, was no different.

Lord & Taylor is going against the grain and bringing back its cursive logo. The department store is set to relaunch this year as an online discount luxury retailer after its previous owner ...

To the editor: Nearly 200,000 ballots were flagged for signature issues in California. Even though many of these were verified, more than 83,000 votes were not able to be counted. If this is not ...

Alphabet (GOOGL 1.13%) (GOOG 1.16%) made headlines toward the end of 2024, with its CEO telling its employees to be ready for an important 2025 while also warning that it would be a challenging year.

The University of Wisconsin hockey teams are going cursive as they go outdoors. The Badgers this week unveiled the uniforms they'll wear at Chicago's Wrigley Field for games Saturday in The Frozen ...

To the editor: It is certainly a noble idea to have more cyclists on electric bikes out there to reduce car traffic and emissions. But the growing e-bike population threatens the safety of ...