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

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 from the Revolutionary War era are handwritten in cursive – requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of penmanship.

The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive. This citizen-led initiative makes American history more accessible to researchers and genealogists.

If you’re one of the dwindling number who can decipher this type of writing, the National Archives is hoping you have some free time—or a lot of it—to volunteer your skills. In collaboration with the National Park Service,

The National Archives poured cold water Friday on President Biden’s declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment is now part of the Constitution, saying courts and Mr. Biden’s own Justice Department have rejected that notion.

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.

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

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. participates in a civil rights march in 1963. The photo was removed from a planned exhibit and replaced with a photo (right) of U.S. President Richard Nixon shaking hands with singer Elvis Presley. Photos courtesy of the National Archives and Densho.

Israel's national archives announced Monday they were granting public access online to hundreds of thousands of documents from the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the main organisers of the Holocaust.

Today we present the first half of a two-part radio documentary from our friends at SF Public Press, “Exposed,” opening a window into the little-known history of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The sprawling abandoned naval base,

Across the globe, cultural institutions are implementing new measures to protect their artifacts from the ravages of climate change. As climate change causes increasingly severe natural disasters, it’s also increasingly threatening our art,

John McCarthy endured four years of all-consuming days in his White House job advising President Joe Biden, but he never stopped loving the job.