Cursive reemerges in schools, with pushback from experts : NPR

Kenerson, a multilingual teacher at Holmes, started the middle school club when students couldn't read her writing on the board. They just stared at her blankly, she said. "

I realized they didn't know how to write or read in cursive," Kenerson said. For an educator who firmly believes that quotes deserve to be written in cursive, and has a new one on her board each month, Kenerson wanted to give students a chance to understand the magic of the loopy writing…

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/19/nx-s1-5669426/cursive-handwriting-school-controversy 

 

Can you read cursive? Help transcribe military pension files from the Revolutionary War!

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence, the National Archives and the National Park Service are collaborating on a special project to transcribe Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service, ca. 1800 - ca. 1912. These Revolutionary War Pension Files consist of applications and other records pertaining to claims for pensions and bounty land warrants. 

These records may contain valuable details about Revolutionary War veterans and their families, such as rank, unit, period of service, age, residence, date and place of marriage, and date and place of death of spouse. Also within these records, you may find copies of marriage or other family records, information pertaining to military activities or details about soldier's lives, along with letters, diaries, or family trees. Read more about these records and what you may find from the National Park Service's article Tips and a Guide for the Curious. 

Not interested in transcribing cursive? Join our Revolutionary War Tagging Mission - read the transcriptions by other Citizen Archivists and add tags to enhance searchability.

https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revolutionary-war-pension-files