Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

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In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

To this day, I derive immense pleasure from old notes in my late mother’s handwriting (recently finding a handwritten diary she wrote when she’d just turned 12, a wonderful window into her ...

She can sign her name in cursive, but outside of us making her write thank-you notes and address envelopes, she’s not used it consistently either. And when I ask her to, it’s a chore. “Ugh. Mom.

Handwritten letters, cards, and notes have been replaced by typed texts and emails, stripping away the personalized touch that comes with cursive.

If you’re not confident in your cursive deciphering skills, the National Archives has other tasks available, too—such as “tagging” documents that other volunteers have already transcribed.

Learning cursive used to be standard in classrooms across the United States, with penmanship graded. Once typewriters became common and later computers, it started to disappear.