It was a half-page tablet with wide lines, so the child had plenty of space to round out the letters. Now you can go to the Amazon website and find innumerable cursive-practice pads and tablets ...

I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don’t ... I remember being stoked to write in thin lines of indelible blue ink instead of fuzzy, erasable graphite.

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau ... working on the Mason-Dixon line, to immigration and Census records.