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Friends and creative collaborators remember famed Native visual artist and curator Quick-to-See Smith, who died at 85 on Jan.

I’m a history major,” said Barnes. “One of the times it really got to me was when I was looking through an old arrest report ...

Do you remember the last time you wrote in cursive? Do you still know how to read it? If so, the National Archives is looking ...

The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive.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.

Do you remember the last time you write in cursive? Do you still know how to read it? If so, the National Archives are ...

Plus: Federal contractors. Guantánamo. Gen. Mark Milley’s portrait. Carpets. Toothaches. Undocumented criminals.

To engage citizen volunteers and make the American story more accessible, the National Archives is enlisting everyone it can in transcribing vast Revolutionary War pension files. (This also caught the ...

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

A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is ...

If you are talented at reading cursive handwriting, the National Archives could really use your help with transcribing and ...