If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S.

A student at Orangethorpe Elementary School practices writing cursive as California grade school students are being required to learn cursive handwriting this year, in Fullerton, California ...

Schoolchildren were once taught impeccable copperplate handwriting and penmanship ... most American students began learning to write in cursive in third grade, making it a rite of passage, said ...