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.

Why cursive waned in schools. The backstory: Cursive was introduced nearly 200 years ago and widely taught in schools until recent years, according to the National Museum of American History.

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.

Cursive writing was once a standard part of school curriculums, but when Common Core education standards removed it from the required curriculum in 2010, cursive's prevalence declined, says ...

Rouan explained the potential difference between printing and cursive, suggesting that “when you’re printing something, you draw the letter and then you stop and then you draw the next letter.