A UMass Amherst computer science professor has developed an automated keyword-retrieval program that could make searching handwritten documents easier for researchers and students. Raghavan Manmatha, ...

A few months ago, the 72-year-old retired Federal Aviation Administration public information officer signed up to be a “Citizen Archivist” with the National Archives, the nation’s official repository ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — If you have an eye for understanding the loopy, flowing penmanship of cursive writing, archivists are seeking your help in transcribing handwritten historical documents to make ...

LOS ANGELES - Just finished watching “The Wire” for the umpteenth time? Listened through each and every one of your friends’ Spotify playlists? If you’re looking for a new way to keep your mind and ...

Framed document written in part by John Adams and signed by him before the American Revolutionary War A document from King George’s Inferior court of common dated March 7, 1761, signed by future U.S.

In August 1822, John Adams, the nation’s second president, donated several pieces of land to his hometown of Quincy, including two pastures, several cedar swamp areas, and an 8-acre parcel that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

The seventh-graders from Berkshire Country Day School in Stockbridge, Mass., bend close over a handwritten copy of the Judiciary Act of 1789, expanded large, in the basement of the National Archives. ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – On Wednesday, “All Indiana” Hosts Cody Adams and Felicia Michelle faced off to see who has the best cursive handwriting. In an age where cursive handwriting is becoming less ...

MSU Libraries Coordinator of Manuscripts and Associate Professor Jennifer McGillan reviews historic documents that are part of the Lantern Project, an MSU-led collaboration to digitize and transcribe ...

Recently, I transcribed a journal kept by Captain Robert Bartlett, written during the last voyage of the Karluk, the flagship of Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition. The ...

Roosevelt exchanged lively correspondence with all kinds of people for much of his life. American Press Association / Library of Congress Theodore Roosevelt got an awful lot of mail. From his time as ...