Once a standard in elementary schools, cursive is no longer taught to all students. A Maine lawmaker would like to change ...

Though sometimes the oldest writing is the easiest to ... 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 ...

Our oldest grandson recently celebrated his 15th birthday. We got him a card and wrote our birthday messages in cursive handwriting. He had to ask his mother for some help ...

The cursive (or "running hand") style joins the letters of a word together as when we write today. In addition, the ancients had two other styles of writing: the lapidary (from the Latin word ...

The third grader at St. Brigid School in Portland moved her pencil slowly across the paper, practicing the letter before moving on to the word "Catholic." She looks forward to her daily cursive ...

After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a capital C on the chalkboard, 9-year-old Camille Lebeis ...